Maderia Cake

This cake can be either decorated with icing or left plain, either way tastes great

You will need:-

8" round cake tin

450g plain floor
2 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
350g margarine
350g caster sugar
6 eggs beaten
2 teaspoons of lemon juice (or you could use vanilla essence)

What to do:-

1. Heat oven to 160C or Gas Mark 3

2. Grease cake tin.

3. In a large mixing bowl add the floor, using a sieve add the baking powder and mix well. Then add all the remaining ingredients and mix well, this will take approx 5 minutes. When mixture is creamy and smooth pour into cake tin.

4. Bake in middle of oven for approx 1 1/2 hours until browned on top and when skewer inserted comes out clean, if it browns too quickly whilst cooking cover with piece of foil.

5. Leave to cool then remove from tin.

You can then leave cake as it is or carefully cut into two horizontally and spread over one half butter icing, put the two pieces back together and cover with butter icing or icing of your choice.