Chocolate Madeira cake. This classic English Madeira Cake is the easiest dessert you will ever make. Lightly flavoured with lemon and topped with candied lemon slices. Madeira cake is usually flavoured with lemon zest and topped with candied peel and has a firm yet light texture.
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Ingredients of Chocolate Madeira cake
- You need 175 g of softened butter.
- You need 200 g of sugar.
- It’s 1 tbsp of vanilla essence.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of rum.
- You need Pinch of salt.
- It’s 5 of eggs.
- You need 250 g of flour.
- It’s 50 g of cornflour.
- Prepare 2 tsp of baking powder.
- You need 100 g of cocoa powder.
- It’s 2 tbsp of apricot jam.
- It’s 150 g of plain chocolate icing.
This lemon Madeira cake recipe is so simple with just a few ingredients. Serve with a cuppa – and relax. Simple, basic cakes rule the roost at my place. I end up alternating between these two flavours most times – its either a basic vanilla sponge or a chocolate sponge.
Chocolate Madeira cake instructions
- Heat the oven to 180'C..
- Cream the butter, and the sugar, vanilla essence, rum, salt and eggs, one at the time..
- Stir well.mix the flour, cornflour, baking powder and cocoa powder and add to the mixture, a spoonful at a time.
- Pour the mixture into the baking tin and bake for 1 hour..
- Warm apricot jam brush it with jam and leave to cool..
- Melt the chocolate pour it over the cake.
Cherry Madeira Cake, nothing nicer than a simple moist Madeira Cake – this one is stuffed with cherries a true classic! And so easy peasy lemon squeezy! This Madeira cake recipe does call for self rising flour. There are several chocolate cake recipes on this website. the buttermilk one reigns supreme with the stout one a close second. As Madeira cakes have a dome shape when baked, you could try scooping out the middle of the batter and leaving a little hole in the middle before placing in the oven.
