One Down, One to Go

My father's 80th birthday was three weeks ago. My mother's will be in two weeks. So of course we celebrate the landmark events in between the two - today. My sisters are in charge of everything else, but I'm in charge of the birthday cakes. Homemade, old-fashioned, birthday cakes. My mother is the easy one - angel food with lemon buttercream frosting. Made that yesterday evening. But my father gets the chocolate cake with fudge frosting. It's the frosting that's the hard part, boiled ...