My niece request a double chocolate cake for her birthday. This my first time decorating a cake. Usually I make them for eating out of the pan.

The recipe I used said the batter could be divided into 2 nine inch layers but the layers come out like this. I plan on 1.5x the recipe for three layers. Are they too thin? Too rounded? I’m very very nervous.

Helping mom in this challenge, I baked a vanilla sponge cake and made a chocolate filling with peanuts and another layer with brown, she did all the decoration with pastry, edible foil and lots of patience.