Madeira Cake
A Madeira cake is the sort of sponge lemon flavored cake that is firm with a slightly dense texture . It might seem dry but instead turns out to be exceptionally moreish.
Ingredients
- 11/4 cups all purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoons baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 11/2 tablespoons commercial egg replacer
- 4 1/2 tablespoons water
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- Zest of one lemon
- Few glazed cherries and preserved fruit bits optional
- cocoa powder optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 180 deg C.
- Sieve flour ,baking powder and salt .
- Cream butter and sugar till creamy .
- Whisk the commercial egg replacer and water .
- Gradually incorporate the egg replacer mix in the sugar butter mix .
- Add the flour mix , spoon by spoon to the mix along with lemon juice and lemon zest till a smooth creamy batter is formed .
- Add in chopped glazed cherries .
- Transfer the mix into a greased lined cake tin .
- Bake for 35 - 40 minutes at 180 deg C , or until a skewer comes out clean .
- Once the cake cools down dust cocoa powder or icing sugar or enjoy as it is .
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