2-Egg Madeira cake

2 Egg Madeira Cake 

Is it just me who finds 2 eggs remaining in the fridge? I can find good cake recipes for 3 eggs, but not so many using 2 eggs. But, for some reason, there are often only two eggs in my fridge.  So, here is a recipe for my 2 egg version of the famous "Nigella Lawson's Mother-in-Law's Madeira cake". I love her recipe, but I need to adjust it for the last two eggs in my fridge. Although Nigella suggested using plain and self-raising flour, when I first tried her recipe I had run out of plain flour, but I used self-raising flour only. But it did the job well.  So here is my 2 egg Madeira Cake.

Ingredients

• 160g softened unsalted butter (low-fat spread works well, too) 
• 140g caster sugar
• Grated zest of 1 lemon and 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 large eggs
• 200g self-raising flour
• 1 tsp BP

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 170 °C /gas mark 3. 
2. Cream the butter and sugar, and add the lemon zest.
3. Add the eggs one at a time with a tablespoon of the flour for each.
4. Then gently mix in the rest of the flour and, finally, the lemon juice.
5. Sprinkle with caster sugar (about 2 tablespoons should do it) as it goes into the oven, and bake for 40 minutes or until a cake-tester comes out clean.
6. Remove to a wire rack, and let cool in the tin before turning out.