Basic Desserts Recipes - Madeira Cake Recipe

  
 

Basic Desserts Recipes - Madeira Cake

Ingredients

  • 225g plain flour

  • 5ml baking powder

  • 225g butter or margarine, at room temperature

  • 225g caster sugar

  • grated rind of 1 lemon

  • 5ml vanilla essence

  • 4 eggs

Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to 160'C/325"F/Gas 3, Base line and grease a 20cm/8in cake tin.

  2. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl. Set the mixture aside.

  3. Cream the butter or margarine, adding the caster sugar about 30mI/2 tbsp at a time, until light and fluffy. Stir in the lemon rind and vanilla. Add the eggs one at a time, beating for 1 minute after each addition. Add the flour mixture and stir until just combined.

  4. Pour the cake mixture into the prepared tin and tap lightly to level. Bake for about 1 1/4 hours, or until a metal skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

  5. Cool in the tin on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn the cake out onto a wire rack and leave to cool completely