Manuela Kjeilen started her baking journey as a full-time Norwegian blogger in 2010.

Little did she know about the journey on which her blog www. passion for baking would take her.

One year after starting her baking blog www.passionforbaking.com, the blog was voted Norway's most beloved blog, competing with 250 nominees, including high-profile fashion and lifestyle bloggers.

Manuela later embarked upon a career as a cookbook author and tv-personality, lecturer, food photographer, home-baker, and given baking classes around the world.

She has been featured in O Magazine (The Oprah Magazine), Ok Middle East , Harper’s Bazaar and many more magazines.

Her first Norwegian baking book, Love, Manuela, was published in 2011 and instantly best-seller.

Since then, Manuela has published nine baking books, one of them in English.

Her Instagram account, @passionforbaking, has a whopping 1.2 million followers – and counting.