Chocolate Three Ways Petal Cake

So this post is really about another fun cake I made. But before, I promised to follow up on how my father-in-law's cake tasted and looked on the inside. So I give it a 9 for looks. When cut into it looked exactly like hunting camo. As for taste, I hate to not say anything negative about The Pioneer Woman, and maybe it was my own fault, but the moisture level was not even...the bottom was more moist than the top. It was still delicious but just not the same level of moisture throughout. If anyone knows how to keep the moisture level throughout the cake let me know. I wonder if soaking the whole thing would help. Hmmm...

Anywho, this post is about a petal cake I made for two friends whose birthdays fell back to back. The difficult thing was it was for a boy and girl. The neutral zone I determined was chocolate.

The outside: This decorated cake is called a petal cake that I learned about from the Hungry Housewife, but I did my own take on it. Instead of ombre, I used three types of chocolate frosting: white chocolate, nutella, and dark chocolate. I started with a giant batch of a doctored buttercream recipe and added 1/2 cup of melted white chocolate (room temp) to one batch, 1/2 cup of nutella to another bacth (or more if you are like me and LOVE Nutella), and 1/2 cup dark chocolate (room temp) to the final batch.

The inside: The boy like chocolate, the girl funfetti. So I made a five layer cake with two layers of chocoloate chocolate chip and three layers of funfetti cake with sliced strawberries and white chocolate buttercream filling. The cake was dense and decadent from adding pudding and sour cream to the cake mixes. I stacked them in a hurry so my only issue is that the cake turned out slightly lopsided...oh well.

The result, everyone gobbled their piece of cake...no crumbs left :o) SUCCESS!