Death by Chocolate Cake

 On Sunday afternoon, to celebrate Ad's birthday, we had some of the neighbours round for cake, and a few games. Adam loves playing board games, and is always keen to inflict/share them with others!! We had a great time, and I think they all enjoyed it.
As you see, this was Adam's second birthday cake. Some of our friends do not like fruit cake, and any excuse to make a chocolate cake!
I actually made the sponge earlier in the week and froze it. I defrosted it yesterday morning and iced it after lunch.
Having made the icing, I know why it is called death by chocolate. The icing contains nearly a whole block of butter and over two bars of chocolate. We are not planning death by cake on our neighbours, but having seen the cholesterol content on the table, they had better watch out!
The cake was very nice, and actually much lighter than it looks. Mary does say that she has allowed a generous amount of icing as it should be complete indulgence, but I did not use all of it. I kept what was left for my next bake!
The cake went down well, and scored 9.0