Chocolate Raspberry Cake (Or Hard to be Martha Stewart!)

We wanted to make a cake for a friend's birthday. A proper 3-tiered cake with lots of filling and frosting. We worked two people, on and off, entire day to create a cake. The result is below and gorgeous, but gosh, imitating Martha Stewart is hard!

The original recipe is here: http://www.marthastewart.com/1140966/chocolate-raspberry-cake

We followed the recipe mostly to a T, so I am not repeating it.
The only difference is in the filling.  The filling recipe is actually how you make jam. We had some raspberry jam already home, so we decided to make use of that. We followed the recipe to do half the quantity of the filling, and mixed it with raspberry jam.

The following picture summarizes the many steps -

Final note, the frosting makes more than the cake, even though we used it very generously.
Also, we used very dark chocolate - for sweet toothed people among us, it could have been a bit sweeter! For me it was just perfect. :D

PS:
I finally found the picture that shows a slice!