Banana Nutella Fudgesicles

Banana Nutella Fudgesicles | alimentageuse.com - Only two ingredients for the creamiest popsicles ever

I’ve been feeling pretty uninspired lately. Not for a lack of food ideas, heck no, these banana nutella fudgesicles were inspired by a recent post I saw on foodgawker. I’ve got nine recipes in my drafts lined up for you, but a bout of writer’s block has started to nestle in and I can’t seem to find much inspiration to write something with the recipe. Some of my less inspiring but still delicious posts to come include the watermelon salad you might have seen come up on my instagram and some of breakfast items that are packed full of protein to start your day.

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Vegan Green Tea Cupcakes

Green Tea #Cupcakes, inspired by Starbucks' #Green #Tea #Frappucino | alimentageuse.com #desserts Before I get into these vegan green tea cupcakes, I want to talk about my fitness progress. A few posts ago, I talked about my body image issues and my struggle with my self-esteem. In that post I kind of mentioned that I would be implementing some sort of a fitness plan for myself to improve my health, body, and self-esteem. I can definitely say that I’ve been keeping up with my regiment.

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Strawberry Raspberry Popsicles

#Strawberry #Raspberry #Popsicles from alimentageuse.com. Perfect for a bright summer day! #vegan

Before I get into these AMAZING strawberry raspberry popsicles, I want to discuss my weight issues. People always ask me how I’m not a whale despite making and blogging all my food and desserts. I’m not “fat”, nor am I “skinny”; I’m just your average-sized-grad-student. (I’m using quotation marks because I think terms like “skinny” or “fat” are words that have too much cultural significance. People get offended so quickly and honestly, people are people. They come in different shapes and sizes. Their size doesn’t make me like or dislike them.) Anyway, Wiifit always depicts me as overweight because I weigh more than your average 5’5″ person, but I attribute that to my muscle mass. I don’t really exercise regularly, but I like to do yoga and zumba, play some volleyball, and go for the occasional swim. I wouldn’t say that I’m necessarily lazy, I just have a huge aversion for being sweaty (even though I like hot yoga more than any other yoga) and I have asthma that acts up in cold weather, hot weather, and when I exercise.

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Coconut Brûlée Cupcakes

#Coconut Brulée #Cupcakes from alimentageuse.com. The fluffiest #vegan cupcakes ever!

So before I get into these delicious and VEGAN coconut cupcakes, I want to reward you lovely readers with a chance to win a $250 Gift Card from Amazon! I’ve always been really upset that most giveaways (like stand mixers or other kitchen appliances) are only U.S. residents only, because not only could I not participate, but my fellow Canadians would not be allowed to participate. So I’m so excited to share this giveaway hosted by Lisa at Wine and Glue!

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It’s Lisa’s (not mine) birthday, and to celebrate, she’s organized an awesome giveaway to Amazon.com. You probably can deduce that as a food blogger, I have a little bit of an obsession with my kitchen. And kitchen appliances. Let’s list all the appliances that I have, and I am willing to bet almost all were ordered from Amazon.ca.

  1. KitchenAid Stand Mixer
  2. Cuisinart Immersion Blender (plus the one for Chis and my Mom)
  3. Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker (2 Qts)
  4. Cuisinart Food Processor
  5. Cuisinart Mini Food Processor (This was before I got my food processor)
  6. CrockPot Slow Cooker
  7. George Foreman Grill (Oh! This was from Walmart)
  8. Waffle Maker (To be fair, I think my mom won this from Zellers with HBC points when that was still a thing. Like 10 years ago)
  9. Black & Decker hand mixer (this was before my stand mixer)
  10. Rice Cooker (Sanyo, and from Chinatown. But let’s be real, I’m asian. Gotta go to Chinatown for that)
  11. Magic Bullet (I think this was ordered from the TV when it first came out)

So that’s it for kitchen appliances. And 8/11 were ordered from Amazon, the other three were taken when I moved from home so to be fair, I didn’t order these myself.

But I have a MASSIVE list of things that I’ve ordered from Amazon that are not appliances…in the categories of kitchen tools (spatulas, ice cream scoops, cookie scoops, baking pans, icing tips, etc.), books (SO MANY BOOKS), a cake stand, memory cards, the list goes on.

I really like online shopping, okay?

So if you are anything like me, you will LOVE this giveaway. What can you do with $250? Uh. Buy your own KitchenAid Stand mixer in almost any colour imaginable? Mine’s chrome because all the empire red ones were sold out and it was RIDICULOUSLY great deal and macaron week was impending and I didn’t want to whip 7 batches of meringue by hand. But you could also buy tons of books. Kindle books. Electronics. ANYTHING.

I freaking -LOVE- Amazon. And my friends here do too:

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Okay now that that’s done, let’s move on to these cupcakes.

I actually kind of messed these up. These were the winners of the cupcake category for the Vegan Bake-Off in which I participated back in February (Runner-Up for Donuts and Pastries category with my Vegan Lemon Donuts). I had these cupcakes and they blew my mind!

They were fluffy. Chewy. Sticky. Coconutty. AND VEGAN.

What’s not to love?

So when the Toronto Vegetarian Association released a PDF of the cookbook of some recipes from the bake off to TVA members and participants, I KNEW I had to make myself a batch.

I think I messed up because I should have made it in an 8×8 pan. That way I would have avoided the hassle of individually icing each cupcake, then broiling, then prying the cupcakes out of the pan. Totally delicious either way. But man. These. Are. Delicious.

The top layer is broiled and it literally takes the cake to a whole new level. The cake itself is so great and fluffy, and the top layer has some chewy, crunchy coconut shreds and GAW. It’s amazing. The Antique Appetite is a genius and deserved to win that category 100%. and the flax meal makes me feel like I’m helping my digestive system even though I’m eating a fist-full of sugar. But that fact that these cupcakes are vegan also make me feel happy about my life choices.

Give these a try. You will not regret it.

#Coconut Brulée #Cupcakes from alimentageuse.com. The fluffiest #vegan cupcakes ever!

Coconut Brûlée Cupcakes

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 40 minutes

Yield: 12 cupcakes or 24 mini cupcakes

Ingredients

  • - 2 tbsp flax meal + 5 tbsp warm water (or other egg replacer for 2 eggs)
  • - 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • - 1/2 cup almond milk
  • - 3/4 white sugar
  • - 1 cup flour
  • - 1 tsp baking powder
  • - 1/2 tsp salt
  • - [For the top layer)
  • - 3 tbsp Earth Balance
  • - 5 tbsp brown sugar
  • - 2 tbsp almond milk
  • - 1/2 cup unsweetened shredded coconut

Instructions

  1. Mix together flax meal and warm water and let sit for 2-3 minutes until it has thickened.
  2. Add the coconut oil, almond milk, and sugar. Mix until incorporated.
  3. Sift in flour, baking powder and salt.
  4. Preheat oven to 350F.
  5. Divide the batter among lined cupcake pans (either 24 mini-cupcakes or 12 regular sized cupcakes).
  6. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean when poked in the middle. You can also bake this in an 8x8 square pan (just make sure to grease and flour the pan)
  7. While it's baking, prepare the top layer by beating the Earth Balance and brown sugar together until incorporated.
  8. Add almond milk and coconut and beat until fluffy. Spread over the cupcakes/cake and broil until the coconut is golden and the top is bubbling.
  9. Remove from oven, let cool on a wire rack (if you made them into cupcakes, remove and make sure you put some paper towel under them because it'll get a little oily.

Notes

Recipe adapted from The Antique Appetite

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Goji Date Energy Bites (Raw, Vegan, GF)


#Energy Bites! Packed with goji berries, raw almonds, dates, and hemp hearts! From alimentageuse.com #vegan #raw #glutenfree

Do you ever have those days where you just, don’t feel right? You just can’t put your finger on it, but you know that’s simply how you feel? Maybe it’s just me but I’m having one of those days.

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Mango Lassi (Sinh tố xoài)

Fresh mango lassi recipe for a tropical treat from alimentgeuse.com #mango #dessert #smoothie #drink

 

Some of you may be aware that I am currently doing a MA in Translation Studies. My academic work doesn’t often permeate my blog, but recently, one of my professors suggested that most people who pursue translation as a career often have identity issues. From just my general knowledge of certain translators, I almost have to agree. Many famous translation theorists have been displaced Jews, who were infamously displaced in the early 1900s. Even today, many translators are natural bilinguals who have either immigrated, emigrated, or been raised in a micro-culture inside a large culture (e.g. I was raised in a micro-Vietnamese culture in a tiny Canadian town).

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Blood Orange Tart with Gluten-Free Crust

Blood Orange Tart with a GF crust from alimentageuse.com

The whole blood orange craze is slowly petering out as the season for blood oranges is ending, but here’s one last blood orange recipe for the food blogging world. I actually made this one a couple weeks ago (this is the reason I originally made the blood orange curd for my macarons). I have the worst luck with curds. I’m always paranoid that I’m going to make them curdle and get chunky, so I undercook ALL THE TIME and then I get this weird, liquidy curd.

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Black Bean Brownies with Fleur de sel – Gluten-free

Black Bean Brownies with Fleur de Sel from alimentageuse.com I’ve had some troubles trying to find the perfect brownie recipe. My issue lately is that I’m starting to hate looking at recipes that use a lot of sugar. Or a lot of butter. I was looking for vegan recipes, but then I came upon this marvellous recipe. BLACK BEAN BROWNIES. I thought, weird, beans in a brownie, why? But then I thought about Vietnamese desserts and how so many desserts use sweetened beans and I thought to myself that the texture would be delicious. Plus beans are waaaay healthier than flour. Hello, pure dietary fibre?

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Lemon Crisps and Moving from Google Reader to Bloglovin’

Lemon Crisps - Crispy little sugar cookies with a light, lemony kick! #lemon #cookies #dessert #alimentageuse

Oh boy I am just on a posting spree this month! However, it’s been a few weeks since I did the Craft (that’s the catering lingo in showbiz) for a friend’s production and I made these cookies. I thought I’d share it now while I let you know about something really important that’s going to change about how you read your favourite blogs.

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Coconut Pandan Mug Cake

Vegan Pandan Mug Cake

I spent a long time trying to think of different recipes that would yield a green result without using too many food colourings. I’m not boycotting food colouring just yet, I still use it for the occasional macarons or buttercream, but I’m going to attempt to use alternatives when possible. Even though I made this mug cake to have something green for St. Patty’s, the flavours in this cake remind me of home, high school, and growing up.

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