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Don’t miss out on this scrumptious experience! Bake your Madeira Loaf Cake today and enjoy a slice (or two!) of pure bliss. Share it with your friends and family or savor it all by yourself – either way, you won’t be disappointed.

Easy Best Madeira Loaf Cake
- Prep Time: 25 minutes
- Additional Time: 0 hours
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Total Time: 0 hours
- Yield: 1 loaf 1x
- Category: Cake, Cupcakes, Cookies and Tarts
- Method: Easy
Description
Are you craving a delicious, moist, and richly flavored dessert? Look no further! Our Madeira Loaf Cake is the perfect treat to satisfy your sweet tooth. Made from high-quality ingredients and baked to perfection, this classic cake will transport your taste buds to a world of heavenly delight.
Ingredients
- 225 g butter
- 1 cup of sugar
- 3 tsp finely grated orange rind,
- 1 tsp finely grated lemon rind
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup self-raising flour.
- 3/4 cup plain flour
- 1/2 cup milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160C / 320F.
- Use an electric mixer to beat together sugar and butter.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each egg.
- Add half the self-raising flour, half the plain flour, and half the milk.
- Gently fold them together until almost mixed.
- Then add the rest of the flour and milk.
- Fold the mixture until it is combined.
- Spoon the mixture into a prepared loaf tin.
- Bake for 45 to 50 minutes.
- Use a toothpick and gently poke to check if it is done.
- Enjoy
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 288
- Sugar: 17
- Sodium: 268
- Fat: 17
- Saturated Fat: 10
- Unsaturated Fat: 5
- Trans Fat: 1
- Carbohydrates: 31
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 4
- Cholesterol: 88
Keywords: Easy Best Madeira Loaf Cake, madeira cake

Easy Best Madeira Loaf Cake. The cake has a firm yet light texture. and enjoyed with tea and traditionally flavored with lemon, and is similar to a pound cake or yellow cake.
Read the full story behind Madeira cake
Did you know that the Madeira Loaf Originated in England?
What Flavour is Madeira cake?
A Madeira cake is traditionally flavored with lemon — all the better to cut through the sweet stickiness of the Madeira wine — and is sometimes topped with a large piece of candied lemon.
You will also find various other equally tasty and delicious Madeira cake recipes on the blog for you to try out!
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That sounds delicious! I have never heard of a Madeira loaf cake before but the flavors sound wonderful.
Thank you for popping in Joanne – hope you will then try out this ‘new’ recipe. Do let me know what you think once you made it. Enjoy it
The Maderia loaf cake is looking so delicious. I think I should print the recipe. Pinning the post for now
Thanks for printing and pinning this one. Do keep me updated when you make it.
Traditional Madeira cake from Portugal is a heavy fruit sugar cane cake – opposite to the light sponge cake known as Madeira cake although they do like their sponge cakes on Madeira so perhaps it is named after the sponge cakes made there 😊 Nevertheless I love both types of cake and will try this recipe 😊
Hi Linda. Thanks for the background on traditional Madeira cake from Portugal. I love to learn all these bits and pieces of information from around the world. Hope you will enjoy this one.
You are so welcome, and I will. I got a response already from my friend who bakes and she said she had been thinking about making a pound cake today. I made the cupcake suggestion in my FB post, so I will check with her later and see if she tried it. She frequently posts pictures of meals, including deserts that she makes for her family. M
Dear Michele, this is awesome news. Ask your friend maybe she will be interested to come and join The Recipe Hunter: Tried and Tested Recipes From Home Chefs group and share her recipes and pictures with us. https://www.facebook.com/groups/therecipehunter
I look forward to your feedback. Thanks for doing this
That looks delicious and easy. I wonder how it would do as cupcakes? Thanks for sharing. Michele
p.s. shared on my Facebook page.
Michele, I have not made it as a cupcake as yet, but I can not see why it will not work. When you do make cupcakes, please update us on the outcome, as it’s always good to add additional information on such a post especially once tried and tweaked. Thanks for sharing on FB, much appreciated.
Mmmm such a treat when I was a child. Might just have to try this and see what my family think. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Justine, Thanks, I hope you will make it and let me know what the family has to say. Enjoy it