Raspberry and Almond Madeira Cake

My cake did NOT look like the one in the book. In fact, going into the oven, it looked somewhat garrish. But ended up tasting quite nice! Not an ordinary flavour, as Colin remarked, "It's quite ambitious!"

Ambitious, but tasty! Here it is: again, from the Cakes and Bakes Book from the BBC;

175 g butter, softened
175 g sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 eggs lightly beaten
50 g flaked almonds
grated zest of 1 orange
100g plain flour
100g self-raising flour
2 Tbsp milk
200 g raspberries fresh or frozen (I used frozen and a bit more than called for)
icing sugar to dust

1) pre heat oven to 325 butter/spray oil pan and flour it
2) cream butter and sugar, then add vanilla and gradually add eggs (I did all this in the stand mixer)
3) set aside a few almonds and crush the rest (in a baggy with a rolling pin) then stir them in with the orange zest.
4) Fold in the flours and milk, then fold in all but 8 of the raspberries (I did not do this)
5) Put in the tin and sprinkle remaining almonds and raspberries on top

bake for 1 hr and 15 mins. cool in the pan for 5 mins and then on a rack. dust with icing sugar!

Yummy! ;-)