Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, madeira cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Madeira cake is a sponge or butter cake in traditional British and Irish cookery. Madeirans produce their own traditional cake. A Madeira cake is the sort of plain cake that looks like it might be dull and dry, but instead turns out to be exceptionally moreish.
Madeira Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Madeira Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have madeira cake using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Madeira Cake:
- Take 125 g room temperature butter
- Get 3/4 cup castor sugar
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Get 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Take 1 1/2 cups flour
- Prepare 2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready Pinch salt
- Prepare 1/2 cup milk (125ml)
Madeira cake can be served with teas and used in celebration cakes. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale and. A classic Madeira cake is a thing of understated beauty. It doesn't rely on fancy fillings or extravagant techniques; just the perfect recipe for a rich, delightful sponge best enjoyed with - of course - a glass of Madeira.
Steps to make Madeira Cake:
- Cream butter and sugar until creamy and light. - Add in eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition. Add in vanilla essence and combine.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt separately and stir together. - Add dry ingredients to the egg mixture alternately with milk. - Beat until combined and no flour lumps remain.
- Pour into a greased loaf tin (I lined with grease-proof paper). - Bake at 180°C for 40-45mins.
Tip the batter into the tin and smooth over the top. 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. A bit of a plain Jane, you might think.
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