Another tip, for easy food lighting at home, shoot during the day, and make a simple bounce from some cardboard and crinkled aluminum foil. Hold the bounce opposite the window and it’ll fill in the shadows just enough.

Here http://blog.bycoddot.com/my-work/freelance/2007/04/17/heaven-delight-cakes/ is what I managed to create. The photos were edited, the background removed, cropped and so on. At the time, and actually even now I shoot with a 3 year old point and shoot camera. I wait for my first dSLR to arrive, that I ordered online last week.