As delicious as chocolate, carrot, and coffee cakes are, sometimes you can't beat a plain sponge cake. Instead of using a Victoria sponge cake recipe, British chef James Martin recommends a more ...

Line a 7-inch loose-bottomed cake tin with greaseproof paper and preheat the oven to 325ºF. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in each egg, individually, then fold in the ...

Cream together butter and cream cheese. Add icing sugar, vanilla essence and milk. Stir together until creamy – do not whip. Take your madeira cake and cut it in half, spread your icing sugar on the ...

Australian Gourmet Traveller and Fergus Henderson dessert recipe for seed cake and a glass of Madeira “Eleven o’clock and still two hours until lunchtime. Something to keep you steady – nothing finer ...