The humble Madeira Cake. My apologies for the awful picture. This cake was made for friends I had coming over, and I had two hours to make something for them, and to quickly take a picture before it was demolished. Which it was, about 5 minutes after I took this picture.
This cake is a great cake to have in your back pocket for when you need it, it is a very basic simple cake mix, which stores great for a few days (and I think is even better if you can leave it a day before you eat it). It also welcomes flavours, so you could include orange or lemon zest, cherries, chocolate chips, etc.
You need a loaf tin and also some loaf tin liners. You could grease your loaf tin and try without lining it, but I wouldn't recommend it! You can get your loaf tin liners for £1 from my online shop, here.
I like mine with jam on, my husband likes it plain with a cup of tea. You decide what works best for you!
Ingredients
175g unsalted butter
175g caster sugar
3 eggs, beaten
150g self raising flour
100g plain flour
2-3 tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
Preheat your oven to 160 degrees, 140 fan or Gas Mark 3, and line your loaf tin with a loaf tin liner, or greaseproof paper.
Either by hand or using an electric mixer, beat your butter and sugar until it goes pale and fluffy. Now add your eggs, little by little. Sift your flour on top of the egg mixture and gently fold these in, followed by your milk and vanilla. Your mix should look something like this:
Now if you were to add another ingredient, you would do it now.
Now simply spoon your mixture into the your tin and level the top as best you can.
All you need to do now is pop it in the oven for an hour.
It should come out looking like this:
Simple. Let it cool on a wire rack, before popping into an airtight container until you need to slice and serve.
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