I baked a birthday cake for a 50th birthday this weekend and I think it went over pretty well! I started with two 9x13 inch chocolate cakes filled with rich chocolatey ganache and covered in buttercream. The thing for me is planning what I’m going to do when I’m ready to decorate and I always like to stick with less is more. I know it doesn’t look like it but I refrained from pink trim everywhere!! I added a ribbon and the only way I could think of to keep the buttercream from coming through the ribbon was to cover the back of the ribbon with a thin layer of white chocolate.