Chocolate Raspberry Birthday Cake

Happy 21st Birthday Big Sis!

This calls for the yummiest cake imaginable:
Chocolate Raspberry 

Excuse the half-demolished pictures. But this was perhaps the best combination of flavors I've ever tried. Seriously, a winner.

Chocolate Cake

Whipped Raspberry Cream Filling

Raspberry Buttercream Icing

Raspberry garnishes

Make a traditional buttercream with butter and confectioner's sugar and divide it into 1/3 and 2/3. Use real raspberries, boiled them down to a jam, folded them into whipped cream, then beat that into the smaller bowl of buttercream. Smoosh it between two layers of your favorite chocolate cake. Mix raspberry extract into the remaining buttercream, and frost the outside of the cake with it (best done when frozen). Decorate with raspberries. Cut a big slice, hand it to the birthday girl, then eat the rest of the cake yourself. Perfect.