Can you feed a sponge like a fruit cake?

[Mouldyfoodhelp]

I can't really find an answer on the Internet. I made a Christmas cake a few years ago and it was fun but nobody ( including me) in my family eats Christmas cale really so I want to make a cake like a sponge I can decorate but I'd like to feed it for a few months with alcohol and I'm not sure if it's possible or if it would go mouldy.

It won’t last like a fruit cake does. It will just go stale.

You can but it won't need a few months - a fruit cake is mostly dried fruit soaked in booze with flour, sugar and eggs holding it all together,

a sponge is different - it's air being held together by flour eggs and sugar so when you add the booze you just get soggy cake.

but...

chuck some cream and jelly on top and it's a trifle.

or marscapone and coffee and you have tiramisu.

It would go soggy and mouldy because you wouldn’t have any structure to hold the alcohol. Christmas cake has a large amount of fruit and nuts and comparatively little flour. It usual to soak the fruit in booze before baking anyway so you are really only topping that up. I’m sure there is a more scientific explanation about how it all works but I don’t know it.

I once had a brandy cake which was a light sponge fed with brandy and covered with whipped cream. Bit like a rum baba I suppose. But no, you couldn't leave it for months.

It would go soggy and would not keep.

A sponge cake with butter will keep much better than one made with any butter-substitute. If you brush it with apricot jam diluted with boiling water, and cover it right down to the board with marzipan and regalice, the way you would a traditional fruit cake, it will keep for about 3 weeks.

Until you cut it.

Make a simple syrup and add alcohol to that, brush onto your sponge layers, stack and decorate. But you can only assemble a couple of days in advance. You can bake the cake in advance and freeze provided it is well covered.

A lemon drizzle cake has lemon juice poured over it, when it’s cooked. It won’t keep though.

No, you can’t. And you don’t need to. You can make loads of different alcohol drizzled songs cakes. Pick a recipe you like.