The deciding specification is the size of one finished madeleine, because four of these five bake the same twenty-four per purchase and the only thing that changes is how large each one comes out.
By the Lush Editorial Team·Researched & Compared
I compared every stated cavity and well figure against the stated pan size, the published dimension fields, the carton triples, the weights, the heat ceilings and the washing instructions across five madeleine pans, using only each maker's own published text.
Twenty mini molds in one carbon steel tray, and the only listing here that publishes all three cavity figures: approximately 1 3/4 inches long, 1 1/4 inches wide and 1/2 inch deep. The tray is stated at 4.75 by 15.5 by 0.5 inches, and its 0.4 pound field matches the 6.4 ounces its own bullet gives.
Two twelve-cavity carbon steel pans with a well stated as 3 by 2 inches, the largest single cavity figure on this page. The maker gives the pan as 15 2/3 by 7 by 2/3 inches, a long narrow tray rather than a squat one, and asks for hand washing only with warm soapy water and thorough drying.
The only listing that states the cake rather than the cavity: approximately 2.6 by 2.6 inches, printed in the title and repeated twice in the bullets. Two pans of twelve cavities in thick carbon steel with reinforced rolled edges, oven safe to 428°F, with a written warning that the inside of the rolled edge is uncoated.
Two twelve-cavity pans stated at 13.8 by 10.4 by 1 inch each, built from 0.8 mm thickened carbon steel with a strengthened edge, and cleared for a dishwasher in the first bullet. It states a 2.5 inch full cavity size, a tenth of an inch under the 2.6 that two rivals state for the same twelve cavities.
The only listing here with a batter guide: clear measurement markers inside each cavity, so twenty-four cakes across two pans portion the same. Stated at 13.8 by 10.4 inches per pan with 2.6 inch cavities, thick-gauge carbon steel with reinforced edges and a contoured base, and the maker asks you to measure your oven first.
| Model | Brand | Size (Capacity) | Weight | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fox Run Mini Madeleine Pan | Fox Run | Mini, 20 Cups | 0.4 lb | Best for bite size cakes for small hands |
| Shinsin Nonstick Madeleine Pans | Shinsin | Standard Size | 2.03 lb | Best when you want a full tea cake shape |
| Madeleine Pan | BreadTalk | Round Shell-Shape | 0.95 lb | Best when the finished cookie is named outright |
| Waylenbo Madeleine- Pan 2 Pack | Waylenbo | one size | 0.74 lb | Best for two pans you can put in a dishwasher |
| 2 Pack Non-Stick Madeleine Pan | CHENZORVAX | 2pcs | 1.49 lb | Best for keeping every cake the same size |
Twenty mini molds in one carbon steel tray, and the only listing here that publishes all three cavity figures: approximately 1 3/4 inches long, 1 1/4 inches wide and 1/2 inch deep. The tray is stated at 4.75 by 15.5 by 0.5 inches, and its 0.4 pound field matches the 6.4 ounces its own bullet gives.
Two twelve-cavity carbon steel pans with a well stated as 3 by 2 inches, the largest single cavity figure on this page. The maker gives the pan as 15 2/3 by 7 by 2/3 inches, a long narrow tray rather than a squat one, and asks for hand washing only with warm soapy water and thorough drying.
The only listing that states the cake rather than the cavity: approximately 2.6 by 2.6 inches, printed in the title and repeated twice in the bullets. Two pans of twelve cavities in thick carbon steel with reinforced rolled edges, oven safe to 428°F, with a written warning that the inside of the rolled edge is uncoated.
Two twelve-cavity pans stated at 13.8 by 10.4 by 1 inch each, built from 0.8 mm thickened carbon steel with a strengthened edge, and cleared for a dishwasher in the first bullet. It states a 2.5 inch full cavity size, a tenth of an inch under the 2.6 that two rivals state for the same twelve cavities.
The only listing here with a batter guide: clear measurement markers inside each cavity, so twenty-four cakes across two pans portion the same. Stated at 13.8 by 10.4 inches per pan with 2.6 inch cavities, thick-gauge carbon steel with reinforced edges and a contoured base, and the maker asks you to measure your oven first.
Fox Run's mini pan gives twenty cavities at a stated 1 3/4 by 1 1/4 by 1/2 inches. Shinsin publishes a 3 by 2 inch well across two twelve-cavity pans. BreadTalk names a 2.6 by 2.6 inch finished cookie. CHENZORVAX states 2.6 inch cavities and Waylenbo states 2.5, on pans that both give as 13.8 by 10.4 inches.
“Four bake the same two dozen. The cakes differ.”
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It changes the cake and the timing, not the recipe. A 1 3/4 by 1 1/4 by 1/2 inch mold, which is what Fox Run publishes, holds far less batter than a 3 by 2 inch well or a 2.6 by 2.6 inch shell. Bite size cakes set faster and dry out faster, and none of these five publishes a bake time, so the size figure is the only warning you get.
Because four of the five are two packs of a twelve-cavity pan. Shinsin, BreadTalk, Waylenbo and CHENZORVAX all arrive that way, and CHENZORVAX is the only one that states the twenty-four total in words. Fox Run is the exception with twenty mini cavities in a single tray. Counting cavities separates one listing from four, which is why cavity size is the figure this page ranks on.
BreadTalk, and only BreadTalk. It puts approximately 2.6 by 2.6 inches in the title as the cookie size, repeats it in two bullets, and asks you to check the finished size before ordering. The other four publish a cavity or a well, which is the mold before the batter rises. That distinction matters because a madeleine is supposed to dome above its cavity.
Their own words say the same thing and their weights do not. Waylenbo states 13.8 by 10.4 by 1 inch pans of 0.8 mm carbon steel and publishes 0.74 pounds. CHENZORVAX states 13.8 by 10.4 inch pans of thick-gauge carbon steel and publishes 1.49 pounds. One figure looks like a single pan and the other like a pair, but neither listing says which, so nothing here resolves it.
Two of the five say yes without qualification: Waylenbo in its opening bullet and CHENZORVAX, which states the coating withstands repeated washing and high-heat cycles. Shinsin says hand wash only, with warm soapy water, thorough drying and no aerosol sprays. BreadTalk names no machine and asks for vertical air drying because the inside of its rolled edge is uncoated. Fox Run names no method at all.
One of the five answers. BreadTalk states oven safe up to 428°F, given also as 220°C. Shinsin, Waylenbo, CHENZORVAX and Fox Run publish no oven figure in any bullet, which for carbon steel bakeware is an odd silence: the material itself is not the question, the coating on it is, and four makers describe that coating without ever saying how hot it may go.
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Nine live pages on this pool already rank by cavity count, coating, footprint, weight, heat and cleaning. None of them asks how large the finished cake is. That is the gap, and on this shortlist it is the only figure that moves: four of these five are two packs of a twelve-cavity pan, so the batch total is twenty-four on four listings out of five.
Read by cavity instead and the five separate cleanly. Fox Run publishes a mold of 1 3/4 by 1 1/4 by 1/2 inches. Shinsin publishes a well of 3 by 2 inches. BreadTalk publishes a finished cookie of 2.6 by 2.6 inches. CHENZORVAX publishes 2.6 inch cavities and Waylenbo 2.5, each as a single number with nothing behind it.
| Specification | Fox Run | Shinsin | BreadTalk | Waylenbo | CHENZORVAX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cavities per pan | Twenty | Twelve | Twelve | Twelve | Twelve |
| Pans per purchase | One | Two | Two | Two | Two |
| Cakes per purchase | Twenty | Twenty-four | Twenty-four | Twenty-four | Twenty-four, stated |
| Cavity or well stated, in | 1 3/4 x 1 1/4 x 1/2 | 3 x 2 well | 2.6 x 2.6 finished cake | 2.5 | 2.6 |
| Cavity depth stated | 1/2 in | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Pan size in maker’s words, in | 4.75 x 15.5 x 0.5 | 15 2/3 x 7 x 2/3 | not published | 13.8 x 10.4 x 1 | 13.8 x 10.4 |
| Published dimension fields, in | 4.75 x 15.5 x 0.5 | package 5 x 9.5 x 1 | package 13.78 x 10.43 x 1.1 | 13.8 x 10.4 x 1 | 10.43 x 13.78 x 0.98 |
| Published weight, lb | 0.4 | 2.03 for two | 0.95 for two | 0.74 for two | 1.49 for two |
| Weight in maker’s words | 6.4 ounces | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Material stated | carbon steel, non-stick | carbon steel core, food grade coating | thick carbon steel, PFOA free | 0.8 mm carbon steel | thick-gauge carbon steel, PFOA and PTFE free |
| Oven ceiling stated | not published | not published | 428°F, as 220°C | not published | not published |
| Washing stated | easy to clean, no method | hand wash only | dry thoroughly or stand vertically | dishwasher safe | dishwasher safe |
| Portioning aid stated | not published | not published | not published | not published | markers inside each cavity |
What the table cannot tell you is how much batter any of these cavities holds. A shell mold is a curved hollow, and a length and a width describe its rim rather than its volume. Only one listing publishes a depth, so for four of the five the difference between a 2.5 inch cavity and a 2.6 inch cavity could be a tenth of an inch of rim or a quite different quantity of cake.
Fox Run sits at one end. Its twenty molds are published at approximately 1 3/4 inches long, 1 1/4 inches wide and 1/2 inch deep, and the listing calls them bite-sized. Nothing else here is in that class. Shinsin sits at the other end with a well given as 3 by 2 inches, and BreadTalk names a baked cookie of 2.6 by 2.6 inches, which is a round shell rather than an elongated one.
Between them, Waylenbo states a full cavity size of 2.5 inches and CHENZORVAX states 2.6 inch cavities. Both are single numbers, so whether that is a diameter, a length or a span across the ridge is not stated by either. For a weekend where the same batter goes into more than one pan, that ambiguity is the practical problem: two pans a tenth of an inch apart on paper may not bake in the same time.
A madeleine is judged on its hump, and a hump needs a cavity deep enough to fill and shallow enough to dome. Only Fox Run publishes that figure, at approximately 1/2 inch, and it publishes it for the smallest cavity on the page. The four full size listings describe ridges, defined textures and a signature hump without ever saying how far down the shell goes.
BreadTalk comes closest by describing detailed ridges and a signature hump in the same bullet as its 2.6 by 2.6 inch figure, and CHENZORVAX claims consistent depth across its twelve cavities without naming it. Both are statements about the result rather than the mold. If cavity depth matters to you, one listing in five answers, and it answers for a bite size cake.
Waylenbo states pans of 13.8 by 10.4 by 1 inch in 0.8 mm thickened carbon steel, twelve cavities, two per purchase, dishwasher safe. CHENZORVAX states pans of 13.8 by 10.4 inches in thick-gauge carbon steel, twelve cavities, two per purchase, dishwasher safe. Their cavity figures differ by a tenth of an inch and their descriptions are otherwise the same object.
Their published weights are not. Waylenbo publishes 0.74 pounds and CHENZORVAX publishes 1.49 pounds, and 1.49 is almost exactly twice 0.74. That reads like one listing weighing a single pan and the other weighing the pair, but neither says so, and neither weight is presented as per pan or per purchase. I have not built anything on either figure, because one of the two is describing half of what it sells.
BreadTalk and Shinsin publish dimension fields that describe a box rather than a pan, so they sit in the package column. BreadTalk’s box is given as 13.78 by 10.43 by 1.1 inches, which is close enough to the 13.8 by 10.4 pans Waylenbo and CHENZORVAX describe that it is probably one pan’s footprint plus packing. It is still the carton, and this page treats it as one.
Shinsin’s is harder to explain. The listing describes a pan of 15 2/3 by 7 by 2/3 inches and publishes a box of 5 by 9.5 by 1 inches, which is shorter than the pan in every direction. A carton cannot be smaller than the thing inside it, so one of those two figures is wrong and the listing gives no way to tell which. The maker’s own sentence wins here, and the box figure is reported rather than used.
Baking for two days means washing between batches, and the five listings answer that very differently. Waylenbo puts dishwasher safe in its opening material bullet with no hedge. CHENZORVAX states the non-stick surface withstands repeated washing and high-heat cycles without flaking, fading or corrosion, which is the strongest claim on the page about surviving repeat use.
Shinsin is the opposite: hand wash only, warm soapy water, dry thoroughly before storing, avoid aerosol cooking sprays. BreadTalk names no machine and instead gives an instruction, to dry the pan thoroughly or stand it vertically so water does not sit in the uncoated inside of the rolled edge, which it says may rust. Fox Run only says the tray is built to be easy to clean.
One listing in five publishes an oven temperature. BreadTalk states oven safe up to 428°F, given also as 220°C, and the two figures convert correctly. Shinsin, Waylenbo, CHENZORVAX and Fox Run publish no oven figure anywhere in their bullets, which is a strange omission on a coated pan sold for a hot oven.
The silence is not about the steel. Carbon steel is not the limiting part of any of these pans; the non-stick coating is, and all five describe that coating at length. Waylenbo calls its steel rustproof with excellent heat conduction, CHENZORVAX claims superior heat retention under repeated high-temperature use, and Shinsin claims high resistance to warping. None of the three attaches a number to it.
Baking with young children. Fox Run, for the twenty bite size molds at a stated 1 3/4 by 1 1/4 by 1/2 inches. Small cakes cool faster and go further around a table, and it is the only listing here that publishes all three cavity figures instead of one.
Serving madeleines with tea. Shinsin, whose well is stated as 3 by 2 inches while two rivals give a bare 2.6 and nothing else. The pan itself is stated at 15 2/3 by 7 by 2/3 inches, a long narrow tray, and it asks for hand washing.
Buying on a stated result. BreadTalk, because it publishes the baked cookie at approximately 2.6 by 2.6 inches rather than the hole it comes from, and it is the only one of the five to publish an oven ceiling at 428°F. Expect to dry it by hand.
Washing up fast between batches. Waylenbo, which clears a dishwasher in its first bullet, names a 0.8 mm gauge, and gives pan and cavity in the same sentence at 13.8 by 10.4 by 1 inch and 2.5 inch. Its published weight is the figure to distrust.
Baking with more than one person. CHENZORVAX, for the measurement markers inside each cavity. Two people filling two pans from one bowl will not portion alike by eye, and this is the only listing on the page that offers anything at all for that.
Everything below was looked for in all five listings and is not there:
