Honey Madeira Cake

From cooking.weloveit.info

Serves 8

Ingredients

• 150 g Butter.
• 100 g set Honey.
• 75 g Caster Sugar.
• 1 teaspoon of grated Lemon zest.
• 3 Eggs.
• 250 g Self-Raising Flour.

To Glaze

• 3 tablespoons of clear Honey.
• 2 tablespoons of toasted chopped Almonds.

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C / 350F / gas 4. Grease and line a 2 lb loaf tin. Cream the butter with the honey and sugar until pale and fluffy. Mix in the lemon rind then gradually beat in the eggs. Add a little flour to prevent the mixture from curdling.
2. Gradually add the rest of the flour. Transfer to the loaf tin. Bake for one hour.
3. Cool on a wire rack. Warm the clear honey and make holes in the cake with a skewer. Drizzle over the warm honey and toasted chopped almonds.