The bottom layer was a New York style cheesecake with oreo cookie crust made using this recipe. The recipe didn't call for a water bath, and I didn't use one, but I think I should have. Or at least cooked it just a tad longer. My cheesecake ended up deflating, but it still had great flavor.
The second layer was an orange scented cake that I adapted from this recipe. I literally just subbed the lemon zest and juice for orange.
Between the layers is a pomegranate jelly. I tried to follow a recipe, but then I bought powdered pectin instead of liquid pectin and was left with 5 freshly juiced pomegranates and really no idea how to turn them into jelly. (For reference, juicing 5 pomegranates by hand is NOT something I recommend.) In the end, I ended up following the recipe for raspberry jam in the pectin box, but cut in half, and without actually canning it. Basically, I dumped sugar, juice, water and chemical powder in a pot, whisked as if my life depended on it for about 5 minutes, and hoped for the best. Surprisingly, it turned out.
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