Dark chocolate birthday cake

A cake for chocolate lovers: a rich, dense and fudgy three layer chocolate cake, filled and coated with a smooth dark chocolate buttercream, topped with a dramatic ganache chocolate drip. It's crowned with a decorative buttercream rope border for a simple and elegant design worthy of any festive occasion.

At the moment my life is a battle between wanting to bake but not wanting to clean. Currently the latter is winning so here’s a throwback to this pretty little number

Berry Chocolate Birthday Cake - Three layer chocolate cake filled with chocolate mousse and frosted with chocolate buttercream frosting and dripping dark chocolate ganache, then topped with strawberries, blueberries, ferrero rocher candy and various chocolate bars. (Plus some rosemary leaves as garnish)

Adapted from: Gourmet via Epicurious Notes: The original recipe calls for making a chocolate ganache, which sounds heavenly, but I have always adored my grandmother’s chocolate glaze recipe — it’s called black velvet icing and it contains eggs, which is odd, but it’s so good — so that is the one I use. If you want to use Gourmet’s chocolate ganache, find it here. Some commenters have found the amount not to be enough for a full cake, so I've updated the quantities below to be a double…