Desserts & Sweets

Sri Lankan Date Cake Recipe

DATE CAKE

Ingredients 1 lb. Dates 1 cup of water 1 tspn bicarbonate soda (baking soda) 1/4 lb. butter 1/2 lb. sugar 1/2 lb. flour 1 tspn baking powder 3 eggs 1/2 cup milk 3 cardamoms (powdered) 1 tspn vanilla grated rind of lime OPTIONAL 2 ozs. cashews 2 ozs. sultanas (raisins) 2 ozs. pumpkin preserve (cut […]

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COFFEE BISCUIT PUDDING

COFFEE BISCUIT PUDDING

Ingredients 1/2 lb Butter 1 lb Icing Sugar 2-3 tspn nescafe (instant coffee) 1 Cup Milk 2-3 Marie Biscuit/Cookie Packets (120g) 1 tspn Vanilla 2 tbsp chocolate curls (grated chocolate) 1/2 cup chopped roasted cashew nuts(optional) Method To make the coffee cream, beat butter & icing sugar until it becomes pale colour. Then flavor it

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MUSKET

Ingredients 3 lbs. sugar 1 lb flour 3 bottles water 1 bottle coconut oil 2 tspn vanilla 6 cardamoms(powdered) 1/4 lb cashew nuts(cut fine) Method Make a ballof dough with the flour using extra water and soak this ball of dough in the 3 bottles of water and occasionally wash it and turn so that

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BREAD PUDDING

By Piumi Soori Ingredients5 eggs 2 oz butter or margarine 2 cups milk 6 oz sugar 1/2 lb old bread broken into small pieces Sweet marmalade jam 1/2 cup raisins(optional) 2 tspn Vanilla Method Boil the milk and remove from heat and add the small pieces of bread. Soak in milk for 15 minutes. Then

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RULANG ALUWA

Ingredients2 cups Semolina (rulang) roasted 2 cups shredded jaggery or brown sugar 8 ozs. milk 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder 1/4 tsp powdered cardamom 1/2 cup chopped dates or any dried friut 1/4 cup chopped cashews Method Roast the semolina (rulang) in a pan on low heat while stirring all the time and set aside. Then

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BUTTER CAKE

Ingredients 3 large eggs 225 g flour 225 g butter 225 g sugar 1 1/2 tspn baking powder 4 tbsp milk Grated rind of 1 lime or 1/2 a lime 1/4 tspn cardamom powder 1 tspn vanilla Method Sieve the flour and baking powder together and set aside. Cream the butter and sugar together. Seperate

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