Christina Leopold
Christina Leopold creates vegan desserts and baking recipes as Addicted to Dates, combining her culinary training with food photography and a love of familiar sweets.
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Addicted to Dates
Addicted to DatesOverview
- Known as
- Addicted to Dates
- From
- Ireland
- Based
- Spain, as of her May 2025 Food Blogger Pro interview
- Training
- BA in Culinary Arts from CIT, now MTU; BBus Honors in hospitality management
- Started sharing
- Instagram in 2016
- First cookbook
- No-Bake Vegan Desserts, 2020
Mini bio
A taste for dessert.
Christina grew up helping her mother prepare food for special occasions and taking charge of Christmas dessert. She later studied culinary arts at CIT. In her 2021 ILoveCooking interview, she traced her move to veganism in 2015 to learning how animals are used in food production.
Finding her community.
She started Instagram in 2016 as a creative outlet and a way to meet other vegans. In her Food Blogger Pro interview, she recalled reaching roughly 50,000 followers within the first year. Her early routine included daily posts and replying to nearly every comment.
Making it her work.
Christina went full-time in 2020, the year her first cookbook appeared. No-Bake Vegan Desserts collects 60 recipes with full-page photographs. Today, Addicted to Dates focuses on plant-based versions of familiar cakes, cheesecakes, cookies and pies, with step-by-step guidance for home bakers.
Creditschronological, newest first
Cookbooks
- 2020No-Bake Vegan DessertsAuthor
Recipes
- 2023Vegan Pistachio CakeRecipe developer
- 2022Vegan TiramisuRecipe developer
Quotes
It's all about consistency.Christina Leopold, Food Blogger Pro
In her May 2025 interview, she discussed showing up regularly while keeping her workload sustainable.
Trivia
- The name Addicted to Dates came from using dates as the base of her first vegan brownie recipe.
- In 2021, she named oat milk, aquafaba and chocolate as three ingredients she always kept at home.
- She told ILoveCooking that chocolate chip peanut butter cookies were her favorite thing to bake.
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