Madeira Cake (Nigella Lawson)
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Serves: 3
 
Ingredients
  • 80g butter, softened
  • 50g caster sugar
  • lemon zest of 1 lemon
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 large egg (70g), lightly beaten
  • 70g self-raising flour
  • 30g plain flour
  • Topping - caster sugar (I used natural raw sugar)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 170 deg C and line loaf tin (7 x 3 inch) with parchment paper all sides up. Sift flour together and set aside.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar till fluffy, and add the lemon zest with a hand electric mixer.
  3. Add the beaten eggs in 3 batches with a tablespoon of the flour for each at low speed.
  4. Then gently mix in the rest of the flour in few batches with a rubber spatula. Finally, the lemon juice.
  5. Pour batter into prepared tin and spread evenly with a spoon.
  6. Sprinkle sugar over the top of the batter.
  7. Bake for 25 mins or until a skewer comes out clean (I baked mine for 35 mins).
Recipe by Anncoo Journal at https://www.anncoojournal.com/madeira-cake-nigella-lawson/