Thank you everyone for leaving your comments. This is all so very encouraging. Love baking and cooking and really like photography so this challenge was perfect .
This is my own custom recipe.
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Wet ingredients:
1/2cup Milk
4 large Eggs
2sticks Butter (room temperature)
1/2cup Sour Cream
1 1/2 packages of Philadelphia Cream Cheese(room temperature)
1tsp Vanilla Extract
1 1/2cups Sugar
Dry ingredients:
1tsp Baking Soda
1tsp Baking Powder
1/4tsp Salt
2cups Flour
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Mix butter and cream cheese with mixer's paddle attachment till creamy.
Mix in sugar, then add each egg one by one waiting for a good mix between each one. Scrape the sides, next add sour cream, milk and vanilla.
Sift all dry ingredients together. Turn down mixer speed and slowly add sifted dry ingredients to wet mixture.
Pour into two spring form pans and bake for 30min to 45min, until crust is nice and golden. Let cakes completely cool then assemble. Sprinkle with coconut flakes and shaved chocolate bits. Decorate the sides with cookies of your choice. You can pipe the icing on the cookies to use as glue. I used these
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I really like the angle you shot this at for it adds visual interest to this cake shot. Colors are good and lighting is as well. I know the main focus is primarily the slice of cheesecake, but I think that you could have increased the DOF to include sharp detail of the cake in the background. Having both yummy elements in sharp focus would not have hurt this composition - I feel it would have helped it more for it would give the eye even more to feast on. There are two elements here that hold back this image from moving out of the above average category and into the exceptional category. Capture all of the plate and fork in their entirety - as well as the full shape of the cake in the backdrop. The reason is an echoing of shapes to create visual interest. What I mean by that is the circle shape of the plate would automatically draw the eye to the circle shape of the delicious cake in the background. Second, I am just not so sure that the cutting block was a good element to break up the white of the table, plate and cake. Without it, the image would have a cleaner more minimalistic look such that the cake and only the cake is the main subject our eyes will see. Still a good photo bumping up to a 7.
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