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Peaches & olive oil skillet upside down cake

July 29, 2019 by Ariel Leave a Comment

This was a fun little Saturday experiment.

An easy and delicious peach & olive oil skillet cake that gives an interesting rustic feels, like something your grand mother would have made and put on the table.  I’ve debated serving it inside the skillet itself but it looks so much better reversed in the plate.  The cake batter comes out very light as airy while the subtle yet noticeable aroma of the olive oil is a wonderful pairing with the peaches and the brown sugar.

Hope you get to try this.

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Filed Under: Cakes, Recipes, Sweets Tagged With: cake, easy, olive oil, peach, peaches, recipe, skillet

Poor man’s pudding (Pudding Chômeur)

June 27, 2019 by Ariel Leave a Comment

This recipe got a decent amount of attention on Twitch because not only it’s super delicious… it’s also super easy to make.

Pudding chômeur (direct translation – poor man’s pudding) is a French Canadian classic dessert our grand mothers used to make in the Spring when the maple trees are dripping down their delicious sap to make maple syrup.  You can absolutely substitute the maple syrup for a more basic sugary syrup, if you don’t have any but, I don’t think you can call it “pudding chômeur” if you do that.  Neitherless to say, it will come out delicious for sure and I really hope you get to try this.

Are you a sugar bug? …because if you are, this recipe is for you!

Got hyperactive kids at home? …this might be the last thing you should be feeding them XD

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Filed Under: Cakes, Comfort Food, Puddings, Recipes, Sweets Tagged With: cake, dessert, easy, French Canadian, maple syrup, poor man's pudding, pudding chômeur, pudding du chomeur, recipe

Apple & ginger crumble

June 27, 2019 by Ariel Leave a Comment

This is actually a pretty easy recipe.  Although, when I first made it on Twitch, it wasn’t optimal.  There was not enough fruit to crumble ratio but the result became some delicious “cereal” that kept me well fed and happy for the few days after the stream.  Yesterday, I made it again to tweak the recipe and take photos. The result is a wonderful dessert that I’m eating with a spoon as we speak!

Hope you get to try it and if even if you’re not a fan of apples or ginger, you can make it with pretty much any fruits you like.  This is the kind of easy going recipe that you’ll learn to love because the possibilities are endless.

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Filed Under: Crisps, Popular Diets, Recipes, Sweets, Vegetarian Tagged With: apple, crumble, dessert, easy, ginger, recipe, saigon cinnamon, sweet, vietnamese cinnamon

Spiced, gooey brownies with candied ginger

April 1, 2019 by Ariel Leave a Comment

Ohhhhh snap.  These are the good ones.

When I first made this recipe, a few week ends ago, my bestie and I added a little secret ingredient to make them “magical” and then we went on this crazy adventure all around Montreal.  Allow me to be dead honest, some parts of this adventure is a little blurry today but overall we had a blast and I’ll forever cherish this memory.  Today, I’m offering you the updated, upgraded and non magical version of this delicious creation which I hope you’ll love as much as I do.

The recipe doesn’t make that many brownies and can easily be a serving for one.  I used a much smaller pan (6″ x 8″) to make sure they are thick enough so all the gooeyness shines through.  It’s also my fifth time tweaking this recipe (my friends are drowning in brownies from all the previous batches as it would have been impossible for me to eat everything) to make sure they are banging and I really think they are!

If you’re a fan of decadence and gooeyness, you got to try this recipe. Enjoy!

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Filed Under: Brownies, Recipes, Sweets Tagged With: baking, brownies, butter, candied ginger, cane sugar, cinnamon, dessert, green cardamom, recipe, spiced, sweet

Angel food cake

March 20, 2019 by Ariel Leave a Comment

It took me a little time to tweak this one even if it’s a very simple recipe.  Most of everything found out there (I thought) uses way too many egg whites and since I live alone, the last thing I wanted was to end up having to eat a huge cake on my own.  Not that I wouldn’t be able to eat it in full but, this where I have to draw the line at being a solitary foodie.

So this recipe only uses 6 egg whites and make a much smaller cake which is perfect if you live alone and/or you just don’t like to share your food (like Joey from Friends).  The most important aspect of this preparation is to make sure you start with stiff peaks when whisking your egg whites AND that you take your time to fold the flour/powdered sugar mix in to the egg whites.  After this, you’re pretty much set and you’ll soon have a deliciously fluffy sponge cake to devour.

Growing up, this cake has always been my all time favourite and if I had known how easy it was to make it, I would have stopped buying the pre-made ones at the grocery full of bad ingredients.  Everything is always better when it’s homemade so don’t get too intimidated by the procedure, it’s really not that complexed.

Angel food cake
 
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Prep time
20 mins
Cook time
45 mins
Total time
1 hour 5 mins
 
Author: ZestyandSpicy.com
Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 1 cake
Ingredients
  • Bowl 1
  • - ½ cup of all purpose flour, sifted
  • - ½ cup of powdered sugar, sifted
  • Bowl 2
  • - 6 room temperature egg whites
  • - ½ cup of regular cane sugar
  • - ½ teaspoon of cream of tartar
  • - Pinch of fine sea salt
  • - ¼ teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • - ⅛ teaspoon of almond extract
Instructions
  1. - Pre-heat the oven at 350, DO NOT GREASE the tube pan.
  2. - Sift all the ingredients of the bowl #1, reserve.
  3. - Mix in the egg whites the cream of tartar, both extracts, salt and a bit of the sugar and start whisking with an electric mixer. Gradually add more cane sugar while mixing on the fastest level until the full ½ cup if incorporated and you end up with STIFF PEAKS.
  4. - Take the flour/powdered sugar mix from the bowl #1 and VERY SLOWLY FOLD IT in to the egg whites. Take your time on this step, if you go too fast, the cake won't rise as much as it should.
  5. - Transfer the batter in to the UNGREASED mold, smooth the top and put in the oven for 45minutes.
  6. - Cool down the cake upside down on a cooling rack and gently unmold once it's fully cooled down.
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Filed Under: Cakes, Recipes, Sweets Tagged With: angel cake, angel food cake, cake, dessert, easy, sponge cake, sweet

Sweet and Salty Maple and Walnut bars

April 23, 2012 by Ariel 1 Comment

One of the things I like the most in life is to cook sweet stuff. I don’t know why but I’m obsessed with deserts.  Clearly not something you want to indulge in too often but once in a while it’s ok to cheat!  Enjoy this terribly delicious recipe that is worth cheating on your diet.

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Filed Under: Bars & Squares, Maple Flavored, Recipes, Sweets Tagged With: ariel rebel, arielrebel, bars, Canadian, delicious, desert, homemade, maple, maple syrup, Montreal, nuts, Quebec, repice, roasted, salty, smooth, squares, sweet, walnuts

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