Quick red birthday cake

A new (cake baking) year has begun, and I have a great many cakes planned (optimism is a virtue, or?). So to get things going I kicked the year off by bringing a birthday cake to the office, I'm afraid that Mr. Eddie Spence would not be impressed by the piping work, but it tasted absolutely wonderful (chocolate, hazelnuts, butter, sugar, eggs, 25g (!) of flour and an orange/ginger syrup).