Gwen Leron is the founder of Delightful Adventures. She's a self-taught baker and cook and lives in Ontario, Canada. She has been fully vegan for more than 12 years and loves to challenge herself by taking old favourite recipes and transforming them to be vegan.
Read more about Delightful Adventures.
Experience
Gwen has been cooking and baking since childhood and has been an informal recipe developer well before this website existed, but formally through this website since 2014.
As a vegan for 12+ years, she eagerly accepted the challenge of converting all of her old favourite recipes to be vegan and developing a few new-to-her recipes along the way.
She tests every recipe until it's perfect and at a stage where she feels comfortable sharing it with the world. While some recipes take just two or three tries, some take over 10+ tests to get it right.
Expertise
She started Delightful Adventures in 2014 as a side project to feed her love of recipe development, food photography, and sharing good food with others.
She has been a recipe developer, food photographer, and content creator on Delightful Adventures since 2014.
The website started out with vegan recipes from all courses, with a heavy focus on desserts and baking. However, more recently, Gwen has decided to focus mostly on vegan baking and dessert recipes.
Over the years, she has written for countless publications about a wide range of subjects, including food. Here are a few of the websites her food writing has been featured on:
- CBC Parents
- VegNews.com
- Food Bloggers of Canada
- Parade
- Oh My Veggies
Education
Gwen chose Journalism for her post-secondary studies. Upon graduating, she worked as a freelance writer for 15+ years and as a technical writer for 20+ years. She returned to school for a short time in between to study computer programming.
She now works full-time on Delightful Adventures and will do occasional freelance writing work if an opportunity she loves presents itself.
Fun Facts
- Libby is her favourite phone app. She listens to audiobooks while she's in the kitchen (which is a lot!) and has surpassed her goal of reading 100 books this year.
- Her favourite dessert to photograph is cookies.
- She's a textbook introvert.
- Her favourite dessert to eat (and make!) has always been cake (and probably always will be!)
Favourite Recipes
She'd pick all of them if she could, but if it has to be narrowed down, these are just a few of her favourites.
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