My 10-year-old son described how he wanted his birthday cake to look: "a really big tall round chocolate cake filled with raspberry filling between some layers and filled with chocolate frosting between some layers, the outside covered all over with chocolate frosting--NO FONDANT, and decorated with chocolate leaves, and also raspberries." We carefully peeled away real oak leaves, picked from our backyard and washed and dried, from the backs of the hardened milk chocolate. My son added the finishing touches by carefully placing raspberries on and around the cake. 
