This cake truly deserves a much more glamorous name. I have been baking it since my mother taught me the recipe in the 1980s, an eager teenage cook desperate to emulate my mother’s glorious creations! It has a certain nostalgia in our family appearing at all birthdays and special events through the decades to this very day. A versatile sponge that works equally well iced simply, served with a cup… Continue reading

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Often Madeira cake is left plain but there are lots of ingredients that you can use to add a different flavour.

 

For a six egg quantity Madeira, an 20cm (8 inch) round cake, try one of the following

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We are often asked “Can you use a carrot cake/Victoria sponge etc?”

 

The simple answer is that Lindy prefers not to for two reasons.

 

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To get nice high sided cakes (you need 3 inches for carving Lindy’s wonky cakes) try wrapping the outside of the cake tin with newspaper (just like you would for a fruit cake). This slows down the cooking of the outside of the cake allowing time for the sides to reach the right height. You may find that

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