Madeira cake

Name: Madeira cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 70 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 175.00 g butter; 175.00 g castor sugar; 0.50 lemon zest only; 3.00 eggs large; 425.00 ml flour self-raising; 30.00 ml milk

8 servings Prep: 20 mins, Cooking: 50 mins

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By Food24 November 03 2009

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Ingredients (6)

175.00 g	butter
175.00 g	castor sugar
0.50	lemon — zest only
3.00	eggs — large
425.00 ml	flour — self-raising
30.00 ml	milk

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Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 &degC.
Grease a 22 cm square cake tin and line the base with baking paper. Grease once more.
Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add the lemon rind.
Whisk in the eggs one by one, alternating with a spoonful of flour after each adition.
Sift the flour on top and fold in.
Add the milk and fold in.
Turn he batter into the tin, spreading evenly.
Bake for 45 to 50 minutes.
Cool the cake in the tin for a few minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.