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MY MOTHER-IN-LAW'S MADEIRA CAKE
I don't know if I ever ate Madeira cake as a child, but just the sight of this golden-yellow loaf with its long crack down the middle makes me feel satisfactorily nostalgic. This recipe, given to me by my mother-in-law Carrie, is the best of any version I've tried. It's just one of those plain cakes you think you can't see the point of, until you start slicing and eating it.
Recipe posted by Nigella
Ingredients
- 240g softened unsalted butter
- 200g caster sugar, plus extra for sprinkling
- Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 3 large eggs
- 210g self-raising flour
- 90g plain flour
- 23 x 13 x 7cm loaf tin, buttered and lined
Method
Serves: Makes 8-10 slices.
- Preheat the oven to 170ºC/gas mark 3.
- Cream the butter and sugar, and add the lemon zest.
- Add the eggs one at a time with a tablespoon of the flour for each.
- Then gently mix in the rest of the flour and, finally, the lemon juice.
- Sprinkle with caster sugar (about 2 tablespoons should do it) as it goes into the oven, and bake for 1 hour or until a cake-tester comes out clean.
- Remove to a wire rack, and let cool in the tin before turning out.
Comments
Hi, i'm from Portugal and i love all your recipes. Is this a recipe of Madeira's Island Cake? I found it interesting because this cake is a typical Portuguese cake in a very rustic way.
Posted by anasofiafreitas on 3rd Nov 2011 at 10.53
This is my all time favourite Madeira cake! Ah-mazing! Thank you! :D
Posted by born2bake on 3rd Dec 2011 at 15.03