Dad's Birthday Cake

We celebrated my Dad's birthday a couple weeks ago.  He turned 56 on March 6th!  :)  Of course, I volunteered to make the cake.  However, Dad doesn't care for fondant so I had to try to test out my buttercream skills... YIKES!

This was a homemade dark chocolate chip cake with dark chocolate ganache buttercream filling and frosting (crumb coat) and a dark chocolate fudge icing.  I used the buttercream for the decorating.  It was VERY tasty!  :) 

Happy (belated) Birthday Dad!  Love you!