Retro cake recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has butter, golden caster sugar, egg, lemon, vanilla extract, self-raising flour and ground almond.
Madeira loaf cake
Course: Retro cake
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Egg: 3 large eggs
- Lemon: grated zest 1 lemon
- Butter: 175g butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- Self Raising Flour: 200g self-raising flour
- Ground Almond: 50g ground almond
- Golden Caster Sugar: 175g golden caster sugar
- Vanilla Extract: few drops vanilla extract
Directions
- 1 Heat oven to 170C/150C fan/gas 3. Butter and line the base of a 900g loaf tin with greaseproof paper. Using an electric whisk, beat together the butter and sugar until light and creamy then beat in the eggs one at a time. Add the lemon zest and vanilla. Now beat in the flour and almonds until you have a thick batter. The batter should be loose enough that it falls off a wooden spoon, if it's too thick mix in a splash of milk.
- Tip the batter into the tin and smooth over the top. Bake for 55 mins - 1hr until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove from the oven then leave to cool for 15 mins then remove from the tin, peel away the paper and leave on a wire rack to cool completely before slicing. The loaf will keep in an airtight container for three days.
