cake planning: 17th birthday

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Cake:
Tri-colour white/chocolate brown/pink marbled cake

Batter flavors:
vanilla cream cheese-chocolate devil's food-raspberry/rose
Filling flavor:raspberry-rose
Frosting:
vanilla buttercream

Decoration: buttercream transfer design on cake top replicated from original artwork*

While doing the usual Artists Market visit, I ran into Sasha last weekend at Karma Rags. She begged me to bake a birthday cake for her again this year (for her 17th birthday on Jan 17!). Of course, I'm only too happy to oblige.

*I got a flash of an idea last night, remembering that Sasha's best friend Brenna had drawn up a cute anime style portrait of the birthday girl. So, I asked her if I could use that sketch as inspiration for the cake decoration. Brenna went even farther with the idea and immediately began to sketch up a new drawing just for the occasion. I think its very cool that Brenna and I are collaborating on Shasha's cake, and that it will make for something so nicely personalized and special!

Yes, I'll post pics...
Somehow though, writing out the prep and planning beforehand helps me with the process!