Gluten-Free Madeira Loaf Cake

Name: Gluten-Free Madeira Loaf Cake
Yield: Serves 6–8
Ingredients: 150 g caster sugar; 70 g ground almonds; 100 g gluten-free self-raising flour (I like Doves Farm); 160 g butter, cold and cut into cubes; zest of 1 lemon; 2 tbsp warm water; 3 eggs

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake

By Lorraine Pascale

Published 2017

About

Madeira cake is traditionally made by creaming butter and sugar together first, and then adding the eggs and eventually the flour and almonds. I prefer to make a ‘crumb’ first, and then mix it with the eggs and water. I think this method is foolproof, and great if you are baking in a rush!

Ingredients

100 g gluten-free self-raising flour (I like Doves Farm)
70 g ground almonds
150

Dessert
Cake
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Baking

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C (fan 160°C/350°F/gas 4) and make sure the shelf in the middle of the oven is at the ready. Line the loaf tin with baking parchment – I usually put a strip along the whole length of the tin, making sure that it comes well over the edges. This mak