The cake was an orange sponge with layers of Swiss meringue buttercream with orange zest and balsamic strawberries. The burnt ...

Use this large sponge cake recipe as the base for a kids’ party cake. It’s a jam-filled sponge coated with buttercream, ready for you to cover with fondant icing and decorate in any way you like.

Ever wished you could make that cake recipe just a little bigger or smaller for the tins you have? Or know how much icing to cover a batch of cupcakes? Or how much fondant icing you need to cover ...

For the sponge: 175g very soft butter or baking ... Use maple syrup to wet the edges of the now set cake and layer each strip of fondant on top of each other, so that it resembles the edges ...