Average vote shown
Login to rate this recipe

View Comments

Madeira Cake

Added on Fri Oct 26 2007

Views 822

" Easy peasy and no unusual ingredients so it's a good one to make when you find you have unexpected guests coming in the afternoon! "

This recipe belongs to 'RadlettPrepSchool'

View The Group

The Basics

• Dish: Baking
• cuisine: Other
• Serves: 12
• Prep Time: 0hrs 5 mins
• Cooking Time: 1hrs 10 mins

Ingredients

• 8oz Self raising flour
• 6oz sugar
• 6oz Flora/butter/marg
• 3 eggs
• ¼teaspoon almond essence
• handful sliced almonds and/or cherries

Method

Mix flour,sugar,Flora,eggs in your electric mixer until creamy. Add in the almond essence (actually, it's optional but it adds a nice smell). Mix in some raisins if you like, by hand. Pour into a greased round tin. Halve the cherries to decorate the top and sprinkle almonds and some caster sugar over the top.

No4 Gas or 150 in an electric Fan oven for 50 to 70 mins. Use a skewer to test.

Leave to cool on a wire rack.