Chocolate, Blackberry, Coconut Cake

Every year, my mom asks for a chocolate birthday cake. Past that, I get to do what I want. So I decided to try an idea I'd seen on the food network: using jam to flavor buttercream. In this case I used a high quality blackberry jam. For the filling I made a coconut buttercream by adding creamed coconut to the buttercream. Two delicious, flavored buttercreams with minimal effort.

The cake was just a moist, dark chocolate cake. Oil rather than creamed butter to keep it tender and (as I mentioned before) moist. It was lovely as a base for the two buttercreams. The whole thing was just delicious!