Friday Cake Bake

It's Simone's Friday cake bake time again - I missed last week but here is this week's offering -
Apricot Madeira Cake

Here is the recipe

5oz caster sugar
5oz margarine
8oz self raising flour
3 eggs
3oz apricot jam
3oz chopped dried apricots

Cream the flour and the sugar with the apricot jam. Beat in the eggs then add the flour and dried apricots. Line a 2lb loaf tin and bake the cake for about an hour at 180C - sometimes it needs a little more than an hour - use a skewer to test if the cake is cooked. Mine seemed to cook more quickly this time hence the darker top to the cake - it still tasted good with afternoon tea and as my Dad used to say 'the burnt bits are the best bits'!