Happy Birthday!

I was asked yesterday to make a quick birthday cake for a family member to take into work today. I knew the recipient liked chocolate covered cherries and her favorite color is purple so I used both of those ideas in the cake.

The cake is a chocolate devils food cake with a cherry and ganache filling (to symbolize chocolate covered cherries), iced with a vanilla buttercream and garnished with a bittersweet chocoalte ganache, buttercream swirls, and both milk and dark chocolate covered cherries.