All posts tagged: food photography

Buttercream Pumpkin Cake

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Are you over Halloween yet? Do you have time for just one more pumpkin recipe? It was Halloween last week, and people dressed up, carved pumpkins and had crazy amounts of alcohol (adults) and sweets (kids, but probably adults too!) In the end, I didn’t dress up. My plans for the evening fell through and I didn’t feel like making a huge effort to just go back home and take my make up off. Funnily enough, I ended up staying in a pub, but that’s a whole different story. Every year we have a carving competition at work. We ask people to let us know if they want to carve a pumpkin, and then we order them, so they can carve their decorations whenever they want and have them ready for us to judge (us, as in the social committee, of which I am part). This year Halloween fell on a Friday, and we were even luckier because it was a Friday drinks one. Basically, every other week we have drinks in one of the …

Apple Crumble

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I always say that I don’t really have a sweet tooth. When people ask me if I like chocolate, my first answer is no. Then, I clarify that I don’t hate it, I just don’t feel like eating it, usually. Most people are surprised, and some have even told me I’m crazy. Fair enough. Usually, I don’t eat biscuits, or cake, or ice cream… None of those things. However, I like baking. I find baking very difficult, and I’m aware I’m not a good baker. I always struggle, mainly because I can’t follow basic instructions. OK, I can, I just choose not to. When I cook, I usually make my own interpretation of a recipe, either because I don’t have the exact ingredients, or because I’m too lazy to measure properly. My go-to technique is if a packet of something weights, for example, 250g and I only need 100g. I know half of the packet will be 125g, so I need a bit less than that. Of course, I sort of eye what half of …

Vegan banana bread bites

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Hello there! I wanted to share a recipe and a few photos with you, if you don’t mind. Last week, I made vegan banana bread. I really like baking, even if I’m not particularly good at it. However, I am not such a fan of eating what I bake, mainly because of not being a massive fan of all things sweet. For this reason, I’m always telling my friends that I’m going to bake for them, and bring food to work from time to time. Whenever I see food blogs (…) I pretty much drool over the recipes they make, both for mains or desserts. Of course, it helps that their photos are bright and pretty. This is some type of photography I would really like to improve (I love taking photos, I love cooking and baking, and I love eating in general, so it feels right to know how to photograph food properly, don’t you think?) but I know that at the moment, my photos are less than appealing (food ones, I mean). Ah, …