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There may be some debate over whether breakfast really is the most important meal of the day, but it is undeniably one of the best looking.

These aren't the first sticky buns/cinnamon rolls that have been seen here as food porn, but all that really goes to show is that cinnamon buns are one of the most visually appealing breakfast foods that you can find. This is probably the very reason that Santos, the gifted food blogger behind The Scent of Green Bananas, chose to use this tempting breakfast scene as an example of how to work with the limitations of your camera to produce some great photographs. This shot uses natural lighting and is not an extreme closeup, so it could be easily replicated with almost any digital camera. To improve your own photography, try staging shots like this one to capture the best lighting in the room. Just be sure to have a cinnamon bun (or several) to practice on.

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Santos, at the Scent of Green Bananas, has come up with the perfect way to decorate a chocolate cake for Valentine's Day: more chocolate. This decadent, mini heart-shaped cake is topped with small individual candies, leaving some wrapped to provide a beautiful color contrast. To recreate the Candy Box Cake at home, you can use any chocolate cake recipe - including a box mix - and frost it with chocolate icing. Don't worry if your icing job is not quite perfect, because once the cake is completely frosted, cover the top with your favorite chocolate candies. If a full sized cake is more than you want to bake, you can apply the same candy-decorating technique to frosted cupcakes.

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