Introduction

When you think of a cake to serve for a very special event, such as a formal dinner party, a reception or perhaps an anniversary, you’re likely to imagine desserts with glistening glazes, fillings of silky, smooth butter-creams and elegant finishing touches like chocolate curls. The cakes inside these handsomely tailored desserts are usually sponge cakes.

Though not always as lusciously mouth-watering to eat just by themselves as butter cakes, sponge cakes marry brilliantly with all different flavors of buttercream, pastry cream, fondant and with innumerable fillings and frostings, giving you the basis for making a dazzling array of elegant desserts for all occasions in your own kitchen.