Chris' Birthday!

So today is Chris' birthday so I decided to make him a cake, I used the Chocolate Raspberry cake recipe from Vegan with Vengeance The cake is pretty simple, with the main ingredients cocoa and raspberry preserves. Food Fight Grocery only had 16oz jars of Raspberry preserves while the recipe called for 14oz, in the end this saved my behind! Reading instructions is usually a strong suit of mine, unless of course I am rushing...I missed the part where I was only supposed to add a cup of preserves not all 14oz! In the end, it worked out by making the cake sweet and VERY moist, I used the extra 2oz as a layer and made my own chocolate icing from a simple recipe on the back of the sugar box.  I made the cute cake "plate" by cutting a piece of cardboard and wrapping it in vinyl drawer covering I found at Goodwill!