This simple and basic Madeira cake with fruit recipe is buttery and scrumptious. The fruit is soaked in Madeira wine making it much more of a deal with. I added a Lemon icing glaze however this cake is simply as good with out.
This can be a very easy cake with solely six elements that comes collectively shortly. The one factor that takes time is pre-soaking the raisins and sultanas in one thing deliciously boozy earlier than. The longer you allow them to soak the extra they soak up the liquid. Two to 3 days is perfect.
You possibly can velocity this up by heating the raisin and sultanas with the liquid in a small pot, bringing it to a boil after which letting it cool. This cake is beautiful to serve with a glass of Madeira wine, fortified wine or Muscadel.
For those who don’t have self-raising flour use two teaspoons of baking powder with common cake flour. You possibly can in fact skip this step and add the raisins in with out being pre-soaked.
Madeira cake is a basic recognized for its simplicity and wealthy flavour. This dense but delicate cake originates from the Portuguese island of Madeira. The cake is characterised by its buttery, barely crumbly texture and a refined trace of lemon zest.
As that is fairly a dense and impartial cake it will possibly carry different flavours very nicely. It’s an excellent cake so as to add different issues.
Variations of Madeira cake:
Lemon Madeira cake: Miss the vanilla and fruit and add a tablespoon of lemon juice to the batter. Rub the zest into the sugar along with your fingers earlier than for optimum flavour absorption.
Orange Madeira cake: Do as above and miss the vanilla and add the zest of an orange and 15ml of orange juice. Rub the zest into the sugar along with your fingers earlier than for optimum flavour absorption.
Spicy Madeira cake: To make the cake spicy, substitute the white sugar with darkish brown sugar or Muscovado sugar and add 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and a couple of teaspoons of blended spice.
Cherry Madeira cake: Stir half a cup of halved glace cherries into the batter earlier than baking.
Almond Madeira Cake: Add ½ teaspoon of almond essence to the batter and sprinkle about 50 grams (1/3 cup) of flaked or nibbed almonds excessive earlier than baking.
To amplify the booziness of this basic Madeira cake with fruit recipe, drizzle further Madeira or fortified wine excessive after baking and whereas the cake remains to be sizzling.
Freezing and storing
This simple Madeira cake with fruit recipe might be made upfront and frozen. Merely double wrap the cake in cling movie after which aluminium foil and freeze.
To thaw, depart it at room temperature till it has thawed.
This cake is usually made in a loaf tin so you may make a small 18cm spherical cake as I’ve finished or alternatively make it right into a 22cm x 12 cm loaf tin.
I want to line my baking tins with paper as this prevents them from over-browning and makes eradicating the cake from the oven simpler.
My widespread cake recipes
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Recipe makes 1 x 18 cm spherical cake or a medium loaf cake
A simple and basic Madeira cake with fruit
A basic and simple Madeira cake recipe made extra scrumptious by soaking the raisins and sultanas in Madeira wine.
- Prep Time: 5 + time to soak if doing
- Prepare dinner Time: 50
- Whole Time: 19 minute
- Yield: 8 – 10
- Class: Cake
- Technique: Baking
- Delicacies: Portuguese
Madeira cake:
1 cup raisins and sultanas
2 Tbsp currants (non-obligatory)
½ cup Madeira wine, fortified wine or white muscadel (non-obligatory)
150gms sugar
Zest of a lemon
150gms salted butter at room temperature
3 massive free-range eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract or essence
200gms self-raising flour
Icing glaze:
130gms icing sugar (sifted to take away any lumps)
2 – 3 Tbsp lemon juice
Toasted slivered almonds to brighten (non-obligatory)
Preheat the oven to 170C/340F.
Pour the booze of selection over the raisins and sultanas, cowl and permit to soak for 1.5 – 3 days. Give it a stir whenever you bear in mind.
Rub the lemon zest into the sugar. This enables the lemon oils to infuse with the sugar.
Utilizing an electrical mixer cream the butter and sugar till pale (about 3 minutes).
Add every egg separately, making certain they’re nicely included earlier than including the following. Scrape the bowl down to make sure all of the butter is included.
Add the vanilla extract and blend to mix.
Add the flour and blend very briefly till simply mixed.
Drain the raisins from their liquid and add the combination and beat for 3 seconds till simply included. Reserve the liquid to brush over the cake when it comes out of the oven.
Line or spray your loaf or 18cm cake tin with baking pay and or cooking spray. Unfold the batter into the tin making certain it will get into the corners. That is fairly a thick batter.
Bake for 45 – 55 minutes (relying on pan & oven) and till a skewer or sharp knife comes out clear when the cake is pierced. A loaf cake may bake in rather less time. Loosely cowl the cake with a bit of tin foil from about 10 minutes into the baking time to stop over-browning.
As soon as baked, take away from the oven and permit to chill within the tin for 10 minutes earlier than taking it out and permitting it to chill additional.
As soon as cool combine the sifted icing sugar along with two tablespoons of lemon juice till you get a runny consistency. Add somewhat extra to skinny it out of obligatory.
Notes
This cake might be frozen. Cowl it nicely with tin foil or cling wrap.
Key phrases: Madeira, cake, fruit, sultanas, raisins, Madeira wine, simple
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