Prue Leith's Madeira cake
Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith shares her recipe for Madeira cake, a traditional buttery sponge cake with a mild lemon flavour.
Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith shares her recipe for Madeira cake, a traditional buttery sponge cake with a mild lemon flavour.
Madeira cake is a traditional English sponge cake made by creaming or beating fat and sugar to a mousse-like consistency, and thereby incorporating air. The fat should never be allowed to melt – if it did, the air beaten into the batter would escape.
It does not come from Madeira, but gets its name from Madeira wine which was traditionally served with the cake.
From Leith's Cookery Bible, by Prue Leith and Caroline Waldegrave (Bloomsbury), RRP: £35.
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