Easy Madeira Loaf Cake Recipe

5 from 7 votes

Madeira loaf cake is an easy and simple British cake flavoured with lemon. It is the same as pound cake, rich and dense, and It is also alcohol-free.

Course Baking, Cake

Cuisine British

Keyword easy Madeira Loaf Cake, Madeira Cake, Madeira Loaf Cake

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Total Time 55 minutes

Servings servings

Calories 292kcal

Author Radwa

Preheat your oven to 170°c, and line a 900g loaf tin with baking paper.
In a mixing bowl, mix together butter and sugar until creamy and fluffy.
180 G Butter, 180 G Golden caster sugar
Whisk in eggs one by one, and add in the vanilla extract, lemon zest and juice.
3 Large Eggs, 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract, 1 Lemon zest, Juice of half a lemon
Now, fold in the flour, ground almond, and mix until combined.
200 G Self-rising flour, 50 G Ground almond
Pour the batter into the loaf tin and bake for 50-55 minutes.
Allow it to cool for 15 minutes before removing it from the tin.

Check your cake batter after mixing. If you observe dryness in your batter, instead of being smooth and thick, splash milk on the batter. This will fix the dryness and will make the batter of your loaf cake as smooth and thick as intended to be.
Don't overfill the 900g loaf tin with the batter so that when baking begins, the batter will not overflow as it rises.
Grease the baking paper with butter so that the loaf cake will not stick to it when served.
Don't rush. Don't increase the heat of the oven to cook the loaf cake faster. It will only burn the exterior of the loaf cake, with the interior uncooked.

Not every time you will have access to ground almonds. If it is unavailable, you may just use plain flour instead. However, plain flour will not give your loaf cake a moist and dense result.
Chocolate Madeira cake: Do you love the chocolate flavor in cakes? Consider adding cocoa powder to your cake batter to create a chocolate version of this Madeira loaf cake!
Orange Madeira cake: Replace lemon with orange.