Baking deep Madeira/Chocolate cakes
To get nice high sided cakes (you need 3 inches for carving Lindy’s wonky cakes) try wrapping the outside of the cake tin with newspaper (just like you would for a fruit cake). This slows down the...
View ArticleWhy does Lindy use Madeira cakes?
We are often asked “Can you use a carrot cake/Victoria sponge etc?” The simple answer is that Lindy prefers not to for two reasons. Firstly a soft cake, such as a Victoria sponge will be tricky to...
View ArticleFlavouring Madeira Cakes
Often Madeira cake is left plain but there are lots of ingredients that you can use to add a different flavour. For a six egg quantity Madeira, an 20cm (8 inch) round cake, try one of the following...
View ArticleKiwi Rachel’s Quick Chocolate Cake!
This cake truly deserves a much more glamorous name. I have been baking it since my mother taught me the recipe in the 1980s, an eager teenage cook desperate to emulate my mother’s glorious creations!...
View ArticleYummy Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe
Invariably my teenage son and his friends arrive in my kitchen, just as I’m taking a cake or cupcakes out of the oven! They are of course ‘starving’ and simply have to cake…..however sometimes I feel...
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