Madeira cake

Name: Madeira cake
Yield: Serves 8–10
Ingredients: 7.5 ml/1½ tsp baking powder; 225 g/8 oz/2 cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 15 ml/1 tbsp lemon juice; 3 eggs; 175 g/6 oz/scant 1 cup caster (superfine) sugar; 175 g/6 oz/¾ cup butter, softened, plus extra for greasing

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

This fine-textured cake is a good choice for a birthday or celebration cake, as it is firm but light, which makes it the perfect base for decorating. It is ideal to serve with hot drinks, either as it is or split and sandwiched with buttercream. Store for up to one week in an airtight container.

Ingredients

175 g/6 oz/¾ cup butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
175

Cake
Vegetarian
Birthday

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/Gas 3. Grease and line an 18cm/7in round deep cake tin (pan) with baking parchment.
In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, then beat in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each