Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Glaze

My children have high expectations of what I am able to achieve in cake terms when their birthdays come around (it was not great planning that they were born two years and two days apart), but I can usually get away with a simply decorated, delicious cake if I quickly redirect them when their ideas start to sound very time consuming. For my eldest’s sixth birthday he requested a hexagon-shaped chocolate cake with chocolate icing and an Eiffel Tower; this was the chocolate cake I made and it