This is a 3 layer chocolate cake (thank you Mary Berry) with chocolate buttercream (recipe in Advanced Bread and Pastry by Michel Suas) The strawberries were dipped in melted chocolate.
I still remember the clients face when she lifted the lid. That is lays the best bit, my heart is always in my mouth when they are opening the box. My cakes have all been the result of the clients asking for a cake, I then ask them to tell me 3 or 4 things about the person the cake is for and I go away and come up with a cake. This far all my clients except two (a wedding cake – my first and a Violetta cake) have followed this format.