The Cake is a Lie! ehem, I think you have pushed it as far as you can. No matter what you are planning for it, I would go ahead and make more food stuffs. Gives you more practice and looks better for demoreel or something.
Top part, chocolate and cherry looks nice, but the dough parts looks a little bit odd.If it was up to me, than I changed color of dough to more warmer one.Plus dough in general can't have such highlights because of them it looks like solid, rock like object. So I assume, try look on the cake references and try to get this warm and soft highlights and shadows.
I think the cake could h ave more of a consistent spongy texture. Right now it looks like cheese. Imo when I think of food texture is the thing that makes it look tasty. Also probably some darker shadows or AO, like where the cherry and icing are coming together I think could help them separate from each other.
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ehem, I think you have pushed it as far as you can. No matter what you are planning for it, I would go ahead and make more food stuffs. Gives you more practice and looks better for demoreel or something.
Imo when I think of food texture is the thing that makes it look tasty.
Also probably some darker shadows or AO, like where the cherry and icing are coming together I think could help them separate from each other.