FIL's birthday is coming up and he is a choco-aholic. In lieu of MIL picking up a ridiculously sugar laden chocolate cake from the grocery store I'm going to insist I bake him one. This way I can control how sweet it is. With LO older now I highly doubt we will be able to get away with not giving her a small slice when we're all eating cake!

Anyway, do you have a great chocolate cake recipe that is not too sweet. Keeping in mind my 22m rarely gets sweets and when my ILs have given her sweets...oh trust me....we know it without them telling us! LOL

Also any creative "frosting" ideas besides whipped cream? I don't want to do something rich like buttercream or ganache. He's a very simple man with very simple (read: picky) tastes so nothing too "out there" LOL!

Thanks!

P.S. I have read a lot of good things about the SK double chocolate layer cake. Has anyone tried substituting the coffee for something else? is it really sweet? 3 cups of sugar sounds a lot to me but if I cut it down will the cake be too bitter?