January 2012 - Je suis alimentageuse

Red Velvet Cake Pops

29 January, 2012 1 Comment

Okay let’s face it, my favourite cake is red velvet cake. It’s light, moist, and with the cream cheese icing, just the perfect degree of sweet. I had cake pops once before at a Volunteer Gala held by my student federation last year, but they weren’t really cake pops, but basically weird super sweet icing balls covered in chocolate. They were really pretty, but way too sweet for my liking. These are definitely way better, I actually can’t stop eating these. It’s awful.

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Filed Under: Cake Pops, Desserts, Vegetarian Tagged With: cake, cheese, cream, icing, instructions, lollipops, Pops, red, velvet

Vietnamese Fresh Spring Rolls with Peanut Sauce (Goi Cuon voi Tuong Dau Phong)

23 January, 2012 3 Comments

After about a year doing mostly baked goods, I’ve decided to start posting my Vietnamese food. Though it’s not as pretty as churros per se, but I figured I might as well learn/document it now before I forget everything. I never knew what these were called in English, the best description I’ve ever heard was from my best friend asking me why I was eating food wrapped in a condom. At the time, I think was pretty offended at that comment, but looking back at it, I think it’s hilarious. But yes, apparently they’re called fresh spring rolls, I guess because normally spring rolls are fried.

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Filed Under: Dinner, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Vegan, Vegetarian, Vietnamese Tagged With: fresh, peanut, rolls, sauce, summer, vegan, vegetarian, vietnamese

Banana Puffs

18 January, 2012 2 Comments

That awkward moment where you buy bananas, then forget about them for about 3-4 days and they become too ripe. I forget if I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve very picky with my bananas. I don’t like them when they have spots on them–by then they’re too sweet. I like them when they’re perfectly yellow. That is the ideal banana. However, I’ll eat them when the edges of them are tinged green, because that’s before the tipping point of over-ripeness.

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Desserts, Donuts, Vegetarian Tagged With: banana, donuts, leftover, puffs

Carrot Cake

15 January, 2012 Leave a Comment

This is my first cake order ever! So exciting =D No profit really, considering I’m used the money I got from it to pay for the ingredients, but it was really fun! This carrot cake is really simple and oh so tasty. I thought it would need some more spices like nutmeg or cloves or something, but no, just cinnamon! And I wouldn’t have it any other way because it’s delicious.
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Filed Under: Cakes, Desserts, Vegetarian Tagged With: cake, carrot, cheese, cream, icing, vegetarian

Caramelized Onion Tart

12 January, 2012 Leave a Comment

So I know I haven’t done a whole lot of savoury food, so here it is! I made this once with one of my friends/coworkers and I think I like the one we made together better than this one. I don’t remember a whole lot about it, other than that there were onions, and it was kind of eggy. It tasted good, I remember that. This one was almost a quiche, but not quite. It was a little bit fluffier than I expected, but it was pretty good. I made everything from scratch! All in all, it’s gonna be a very onion-y next couple of days for lunch.

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Filed Under: Dinner, Lunch, Tarts, Vegetarian Tagged With: caramelized, dinner, onion, quiche, tart, vegetarian

Chocolate Dipped Fruit

8 January, 2012 Leave a Comment

Some of you know that I occasionally worked for Edible Arrangements during the busy holidays when I had time. That was one of the jobs that I really enjoyed and would totally be happy doing every day. Something about the smell of chocolate and being able to eat your mistakes, which is generally pretty healthy because sometimes I fail at cutting pineapples. But sometimes for friends birthdays (especially those who don’t like baked goods as much), I would make a box of chocolate covered fruit with some of them dipped in coconut, some in crushed almonds. I recently had a couple friends ask me how to dip fruit in chocolate, so let me give you some tips =)

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Filed Under: Desserts, Miscellaneous, Vegetarian Tagged With: banana, chocolate, dipped, fruit, pineapple, strawberry, tutorial

Lemon Cake

4 January, 2012 Leave a Comment

Whee another cake! This one wasn’t as tasty as the red velvet was, it was a really really dense cake and I omitted the lemon sugar syrup, which I regret because I think the cake could have used the extra kick. If you’re going to make this cake, I recommend using a lemon syrup. I also preferred the cream cheese icing from the red velvet too, zOMG that was delicious. However, this buttercream recipe is still pretty delicious. Overall, a great success! I had so much fun piping all the different designs =)

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Filed Under: Cakes, Desserts, Vegetarian Tagged With: cake, dessert, lemon, vegetarian

Buttermilk Lemon Blueberry Muffins

3 January, 2012 Leave a Comment

After icing that cake, I really wanted to make another cake. I was toying with the idea of a lemon cake with lemon buttercream, but I didn’t have anybody to eat it. My brother doesn’t like eating sweets and my mom will eat maybe a slice. I didn’t want to toy with the idea of eating 3/4 of a cake by myself. However, my supplies were limited to a lemon, a box of blueberries and buttermilk.

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