Cookie time

I had this overwhelming urge to bake some cookies yesterday. The thing is I don't like to eat the cookies very much... strange isn't it.
So I baked two kinds of cookies.
Firstly I wanted to make something with merengue. As the plain merengue cookies are too sweet I made some with cookie base and very sour jam:
mix well 100 g butter (room temperature) + 80 ml sugar
beat in 2 egg yolks (save the egg whites for merengue, preferably put them into fridge - they'll form better foam when cold)
add 1 cup  flour, 1 tablespoon of almond extract (or almond liqueur), pinch of salt and some grated lemon peel.
form a nice ball and put it into fridge for an hour or some more.

afterwards form thin round cookies. I got 26 pieces out of this dough. Scoop 1/2 teaspoons of jam onto each cookie, the sourer the better. I used plum jam - made of the plums from my own garden, with minimal sugar.

add 1 tbsp of fresh lemon juice to the two egg whites and whip until a bit stiff. add slowly 80 g sugar, beating constantly. continue whipping until the foam does not fall out of the bowl when you tilt it almost upside down. I also added 2 tablespoons of coconut flakes - folded them in in the end, gently.
Divide the egg-white onto cookies.
Bake ~15 minutes in 175 C oven, until the tops are light beige. Let the cookies cool in the oven for a while. If you take them out too suddenly the merengue might fall down and it's not nice.

No pictures, sorry. My husband came home just when I took the cookies out of the oven and when I remembered that I might take some pictures the cookies were no more. But they really look nice and fluffy.

The other cookies were Madeleines. Very classical french butter cakes. Supposedly the favourites of Marcel Proust.  They were not so popular at my home though... Maybe because I don't have the special moulded baking pan and the cookies were too flat, not spongy as they supposed to be. But they were not bad either, the other ones were just better.
As you can find many-many madeleine recipes in internet (I used this one: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/French-Butter-Cakes-Madeleines/Detail.aspx) I will not repeat any of them.