This cake is perfect for colder afternoons. Hot tea with warm cake is like heaven :). Recipe for maidera cake is from book "Cakes and Slices" (Murdoch Books).
Ingredients:
3 eggs
180 g unsalted butter
170 g caster sugar (I used 140 g)
165 g self-raising flour
2 teaspoon lemon zest
1 teaspoon lemon juice
Jar seedless raspberry jam (regular size)
1. Prepare 2 loaf tins (grease them).
2. Pre-heat oven to 160 C degrees.
3. Mix butter with sugar until mixture change color to light cream and will be fluffy.
4. Add one egg at a time and mix well.
5. Add flour, lemon zest and lemon juice. Combine well.
6. Turn into prepared tins.
7. Bake for about 40 minutes. Look after this cake, maybe it will bake faster.
8. When ready allow to cool.
9. To each loaf tin add half a jar of jam.
10. Put cake on jam.
11. 15 minutes before serving put tins to pre-heated oven to 150 C degrees.
16. Serve hot and decorate with jam.
Smacznego!
Love this cake and pairing this with jam is making me hungry..Superb.
ReplyDeleteI really like madeira cake, and it is probably great with jam, I would have it with a nice cup of tea, I think lemon tea :-), Italian style!
ReplyDeleteYum!
ciao
Alessandra
Thank you girls! This cake is seriously delicious :). I like to eat it with tea+milk :).
ReplyDeletePolish people love lemon tea! They add to common tea lemon juice.
ciao :D