Lemon Madeira cake. Who doesn't love a lemon cake? According to Mary Berry, a Madeira Cake is a close textured plain cake that is signified by a dome and a crack on the top. Traditionally it is lemon in flavour and has some sort of candied lemon garnish.
Serve our delicious lemon Madeira cake with a cuppa for the ultimate afternoon relax. This is one of those recipes which is a little bit deceptive in it's simplicity. Place all ingredients in a bowl and beat! You can have Lemon Madeira cake using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Lemon Madeira cake
- It’s 250 g of sugar.
- You need 40 g of white cooking fat.
- Prepare 200 g of margarine.
- You need 350 g of all purpose flour.
- You need 1 tablespoon of baking powder.
- It’s 4 tablespoons of glycerine.
- Prepare 7 of eggs.
- It’s 1 of lemon.
A magical cake with a lovely texture and as for the taste. I'll leave that up to you. 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!
Lemon Madeira cake instructions
- Mix sugar, white cooking fat and margarine in a bowl until it becomes white..
- Combine all purpose flour and baking powder in a separate bowl..
- Crack 7 eggs into the sugar-margarine mixture and alternate with the flour as you mix..
- Add lemon shavings and lemon juice into the batter and mix. Add glycerine and combine into the mixture then pour the batter into your baking tin. Bake for an hour at 180°C.
Madeira cake with orange & lemon. Then remove the cake from the tin and sprinkle generously with caster sugar. Madeira cake is a sponge or butter cake in traditional British and Irish cookery. It is sometimes mistakenly thought to originate from the Madeira Islands; however, that is not the case as it was named after Madeira wine, a Portuguese wine from the islands. 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.
