Hello and welcome! I am Irina Totterman, author of Baking Like a Chef. I am a recipe developer and creator, food photographer, and copywriter with over seven years of experience and over thirty years of experience in home cooking and baking.
I started Baking Like a Chef in 2018 to share my baking recipes, helpful tips, and tricks. My recipes have been featured in Parade, Chef Simon, Le Journal des Femmes, Foodgawker, and Bloglovin.
In 2021, with Pavlova aux prunes, I won the monthly Le Journal des Femmes Cuisine competition.
You can find me on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook. To contact me, visit my contact page or email me at hello@bakinglikeachef.com.
- Expertise: Baking, Cooking, Recipe Creation, Food Photography, Food Writing
- Over 300 recipes published online
My story
Baking became an essential part of my weekend routine when I was nine. Early in the morning on weekends, I tried my baking following the recipes collected from old magazines. When my dough did not turn out as I wanted, I often threw away my failed experiments and started over.
I searched for recipes in paper magazines and newspapers, joined baking communities, attended baking classes, experimented, and learned a lot. Over time, through practice and persistence in the face of frustration, I improved my skills. The hobby became a fun and essential part of my life.
Before starting the food blog in 2018, I extensively traveled to France to learn pastry arts from world-renowned chefs. I took pastry classes from Philippe Conticini and Christophe Michalak and cooking workshops at the École Lenôtre.
In 2018, I finally decided to share my recipes, baking knowledge, and skills with others at Baking Like a Chef.
I have also spent the last seven years developing my recipe creator, food photographer, and copywriter skills through Cooking With Keywords, Funnel Rx™, and Two Comma Club Live courses.
Here, at Baking Like a Chef, you will find hundreds of foolproof dessert recipes tested and fine-tuned numerous times in my kitchen. I want you to feel reassured and confident that any recipe you choose on the blog will also turn out well in your kitchen.
At present, I am writing a baking cookbook and building a new website devoted to sourdough baking.