You can never go wrong with a chocolate layer cake. Whether you make one for a birthday or to celebrate someone fantastic in your life, a tall, dark chocolate cake covered in a delicious buttercream is the way to go. I have yet to find someone who refuses a slice of chocolate cake. Plan ahead: bake and cool the cake layers, and if not icing that day, wrap each layer in plastic wrap and chill until ready to use. You can freeze the layers for up to one month (thaw overnight in the refrigerator). For this cake, I used Martha Stewart's Ultimate Chocolate Cake. Click here for the recipe. I find that chilled cake layers are key for applying flawless Swiss meringue buttercream. You can do it on room temperature cakes, but crumbs are more likely to come off if the layers aren't hardened a bit. Swiss meringue buttercream is perhaps one of the easiest buttercreams to make, because the preparation is straightforward and basic. Egg whites and sugar get heated and whisked over a
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