Thanks for all the kind comments. The cake was delicious. I saved a
slice for the daughter and the wife and brought the rest of it into
work.
I definitely want to get a rack to cool them on.

A couple of questions have come to mind. First, I bought three 9"
cake pans. If I had wanted a three-layered cake, would I simply use
the same recipe and same quantities but just distribute the batter
over three pans instead of two? I assume that I would definitely
need to increase the amount of icing to account for the extra layer.

My second question concerns a German chocolate cake. Is the
cake portion of a German chocolate cake usually just a normal
chocolate cake? I can look at recipes but there are so many ways
to make a regular chocolate cake that it might be hard for me to
tell. The reason I ask is that I want to make one and I'm wondering
if I can use the Hershey's perfectly chocolate cake recipe and just
locate a recipe for German chocolate icing.

Thank you, Michael