Sweet Treats

11 July 22, 2017 Sauces & Spreads

4-ingredient Vegan Nutella | v + gf

Nutella, peanut butter or any sugary, fatty spreads were all banned from our house when I grew up. We would only get it maybe once every six months, and those times my brother & I devoured PB/Nutella sandwiches until our stomachs were ready to burst. This nut butter restriction I obviously make up for by far as an adult ;-) There’s always always at least one kind of nut butter in my fridge, and it’s my constant go-to for sandwich spreads, dipping sauces, porridge toppings, dessert fillings, caramel sauces, ice cream and even granola flavoring. Or eaten by the spoonful when I’m hangry. Though of course nowadays I opt for the homemade, natural kinds as I find processed foods not so sexy.

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5 July 15, 2017 Sweet Treats

Vegan Avocado Popsicles with Mint Chocolate Drizzle | v + gf

Summer’s in full bloom here, and I have a freezer stocked with vegan avocado popsicles. My vacation has officially started now, though I think my brain checked out already weeks ago. The past weeks has been spent in a dreamlike state of half-working and half-cruising around town for various summer adventures. Rooftop wine drinking with friends, park hangouts and countless of excuses to go for walks rather than finish whatever task I had set up for the day.

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9 May 13, 2017 Food Styling & Photography

Pile High Apple Pie + Teaming up!

It’s been exactly one year since my Norwegian food stylist colleague Marianne picked me up in her car and we drove out to my summer-house for 1,5 day of intense pie baking, styling and shooting. Marianne had contacted me via instagram a month or so earlier, asking if I wanted to team up with her and create a recipe series for Norwegian food magazines. She was sitting in her apartment in Oslo, brainstorming ideas and looking for opportunities to collaborate in this otherwise rather solitary profession. And I was working part-time with Cashew Kitchen, looking to extend my network and explore all the different ways one can work with food styling and food photography. So in a way we caught each other just at the right time!

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18 May 10, 2017 Sweet Treats

No-Churn Cardamom Nice Cream with Almond Butter Caramel Ripple | v + gf

One dark winter evening about three months ago, I got an intense craving for a very particular raw cinnamon & cardamom nice cream that can only be found in certain hip supermarkets in town. Back then I was still living in the house out in the archipelago, and even if our local supermarket would have this nice cream, I had no way of getting there without a car. Yet, I badly needed that almost burning intensity of cinnamon and the crunchy warmth of freshly crushed cardamom seeds in my mouth, right now.

The other qualities of this much desired nice cream was less significant. After a quick pantry (and freezer) inventory, I found that I had all key ingredients at home to satisfy my obsession. I don’t even remember how the almond butter ripple idea was born, but who doesn’t like to eat caramel sauce by the spoonful? I knew this nice cream experiment needed a lot of caramel.

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19 March 18, 2017 Sweet Treats

Veronica’s Chocolate Cake – Step by Step!

One rainy afternoon in a seemingly commonplace Tuscan villa near the small village of Impruneta, Veronica made us chocolate cake. The real kind, with melted high quality chocolate and Bialetti brewed espresso. A month earlier I would never expect to find myself in this particular kitchen on a plain February Monday afternoon. Possibly drinking coffee and perhaps eating pieces of store bought dark chocolate while drudging over my endless to do-list – sure! Sounds like my average Monday. But having heartfelt meetings with likeminded creatives during hours of cooking classes (in Italy!) while obsessively capturing every single moment because of its pure beauty – definitely not.

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