Simple easy Madeira Cake | BBC Good Food

Ingredients

240 grams unsalted butter Or margarine. (Soft)
200 grams caster sugar (You’ll need a little more at the end to sprinkle over the cake before baking)
grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
4 medium eggs (you could use 3 large, our chickens lay medium)
300 grams of self-raising flour

Method

STEP 1
Preheat oven to 170ºC/150ºC Fan/gas mark 3/325ºF
STEP 2
Cream the butter and sugar, and add the lemon zest and juice
STEP 3
Add the eggs a couple at a time with half of the flour each time
STEP 4
Transfer to a loaf tin (make sure you line and butter it)
STEP 5
Sprinkle a tablespoon of caster sugar over the top before putting it in the oven to bake. Bake for 1hr 15mins or until cake tester comes out clean.