Madeira Cake
Ingredients
- 240 g 8½ oz softened butter
- 200 g 7oz golden caster sugar plus extra for dusting
- 210 g 7oz self raising flour
- 90 g 3oz plain flour
- 3 eggs
- Grated zest and juice of one orange
- Few drops of vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 17OC Gas 3
- Butter and line a 450g (1lb) loaf tin
- Cream together the butter and sugar
- Add the orange zest and vanilla extract
- Add the eggs one at a time
- Mix in the flour and the orange juice
- Spoon into the loaf tin and sprinkle with a couple of tablespoons of sugar.
- Bake for an hour or until a skewer comes out clean
- Cool in the tin on a wire rack