Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, madeira cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Madeira Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Madeira Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale and. Madeira cake is a sponge or butter cake in traditional British and Irish cookery. Madeirans produce their own traditional cake.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook madeira cake using 8 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Madeira Cake:

1. Make ready 1/2 cup Magarine (125g)
2. Make ready 1 cup Castor Sugar(250ml)
3. Prepare 2 Extra Large Eggs
4. Get 1 Grated Rind of 1 Lemon
5. Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla Essence(5ml)
6. Get 2 cup Cake Flour (500ml)
7. Prepare 2 tsp Baking Powder (10ml)
8. Make ready 1 cup Milk (250ml)

This Madeira cake has a firm crust but a light and moist inside with a generous hint of vanilla. 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. I didn't stray away from the traditional version as I wanted to try it in it's classic form.

Instructions to make Madeira Cake:

1. ~Cream Margarine n Sugar until light n fluffy - ~Beat in the eggs,Lemon Rind n Vanilla essence - ~Sift flour n Baking powder together and mix into the creamed mixture alternately with the milk - ~Pour into a greased 23cm (9inch) loaf tin and bake at 180°F (350 F) for ± 1hour - - *Variation: Cherry Cake - Add 250ml (1Cup) cherries chopped, to the cake mixture and fold in.

Madeira cakes improve in flavour and texture after one or two days, and so can be made in advance and wrapped tightly in aluminium foil until needed. 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. This iconic cake is a favourite with all the family.

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