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Home made Chow Chow (Chayote) - Preserve
This can be used for your Christmas cake. Ingredients 620 g Chow Chow fruit 525 g sugar 1 tsp salt 250ml water Method Peel off skin of...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 31, 20221 min read


Raspberry Coulis
Ingredients 1/2 cup sugar 3 tablespoons water 1 lb fresh raspberries or 12 ounce bag of frozen raspberries, thawed Method Heat the sugar...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 30, 20221 min read


Waffles - another method
I was able to make 9 waffles with this quantity Ingredients 250 g Flour 3 pkts (24g) of Vanilla Sugar 100 g butter/margarine 3 eggs 1 1/2...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 29, 20221 min read


How to - Vanilla Sugar
Ingredients 200 g sugar 1 vanilla bean/pod 1 tsp cornflour/flour Method Cut vanilla bean/pod into pieces and add to the sugar. Then put...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 29, 20221 min read


Chocolate mousse with Raspberry Coulis
Ingredients for Chocolate mousse 330 g bittersweet (60-68%) chocolate, finely chopped (2 milk slabs and 1 dark slab) 2 sheets (4 g) sheet...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 29, 20222 min read


Zucchini Cutlets (Courgette)
Ingredients 4 small zucchini 1 carrot 1 potato salt 100 g cheese 3 pips garlic 2 Eggs pepper/salt/chili powder bread crumbs olive oil...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 28, 20221 min read


Love Cake
Ingredients 250 g cashew nuts (chopped fine) 300 g sugar 250 g butter 250 g semolina (coarse) 250 g pumpkin preserve (chopped fine) 8 egg...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 12, 20221 min read


Strawberry and Passion Fruit Jam
Ingredients 500g Strawberries 5 passion fruits 90 gm of Gelling Sugar-this contains pectin 100 gm Castor sugar 2 sterilised jars...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 11, 20221 min read


Stroop-waffles
Ingredients Waffles: 1/2 cup warm milk 1 package active dry yeast 4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting 3/4 cup granulated...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 4, 20222 min read


Waffles - Easy
Ingredients 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 Tbsp sugar 1 Tbsp baking powder ¼ tsp salt 1 ¾ cups butter milk (420 ml) 2 large eggs ½ tsp...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 3, 20221 min read


Blueberry Jam
with this quantity I made 690g of Jam Method 500g Blue Berries 200 g sugar 20 g Gelling sugar (fruits2:1sugar) Jars/Bottles for the jam...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 3, 20221 min read


Rolex Watch Cake
Items needed 1 Cake 6X6x5 Butter cream icing Green Fondant White Fondant black Fondant Rolling pin items for fondant as shown Corn starch...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 28, 20223 min read


Cricket bat and ball cake
These were made with Rice Krispies. So I made the rice Krispies and shaped them according to the design I wanted. A cricket bat, ball and...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 20, 20221 min read


Cake top sculptors or models with Rice Krispies
Ingredients 1 packet marshmallows (about 40 or 10 ozs) or 4 cups miniature marshmallows or 1 jar of marshmallow fluff. 6 cups Rice...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 16, 20222 min read


Strawberry Ice Cream
Ingredients 250 g fresh strawberries 150g of icing sugar 2 tsp of lime juice 2 dl or 200 ml of full cream Method Puree the strawberries,...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 15, 20221 min read


Nectarine Jam
with this quantity I made 460g of Jam Method 500g Nectarines(after removing seed) 1 Lemon 200 g sugar 20 g Gelling sugar (fruits2:1sugar)...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 15, 20221 min read


Brandy Butter
Ingredients 170g Softened butter 284g Icing sugar 1 tsp Vanilla 2 tablespoons Brandy or to taste (Use a good quality Brandy) Method In an...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 14, 20221 min read


Pineapple Cake
Ingredients 250 gm flour 2 ½ tsp baking powder 5 eggs 250 gm sugar 250 gm butter Vanilla Milk a little Either use 250 gm fresh pineapple,...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 14, 20221 min read


Strawberry Panna Cotta
Ingredients 3 sheets leaf gelatine 450ml double cream 200ml whole milk 100g white caster sugar 1 vanilla pod 1 packet Strawberry Jelly...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 12, 20221 min read


Beef Stew
Ingredients 1 bowl stewing beef trimmed and cubed 1.5 Tbsp flour 1/4 tsp garlic powder 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp black pepper 1.5 Tbsp olive...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 12, 20221 min read


Frozen Theme cake
Also made for my granddaughter's creche Method I made a chocolate cake. Then I made white butter cream icing and cut the cake in half and...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 10, 20221 min read


Ballerina Cake
made for my granddaughter's 4th birthday. Method Take two sponge cakes, I marbled it pink and white colour inside. I made pink butter...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 8, 20221 min read


