Birthday cake

[FuzzzyDuckosaurus]

Hello, I'm looking to bake my daughters first birthday cake and need tips and possibly a favorite sponge recipe.

I've just done a trial run with a butterfly silicone mould and a very basic sponge mix but it turned out very greasy but I don't know if this was due to the mould or the recipe

Fuzzyduck, what mixture did you use? your own or a packet mix?

It was one from a book. Very simple flour, eggs, sugar, butter abc baking powder. Once cooled it wasn't to bad. Think I maybe tried to turn out of mould to quick instead of leaving it to completely cool

You may need to make a more dense cake if your going to decorate your cake, it will keep longer than normal sponge, it lasts several days, if you google madiera cake, thats what you need.

Ah, thanks

Will try that