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How to prepare butter cream icing
Ingredients 125g butter 250g icing sugar 1 tsp vanilla a few tbsp of milk for dripping consistency Method Simple butter-cream icing -...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 7, 20241 min read


Cricket Shirt Cake
Make a rectangle cake of your choice, when cool cover with butter cream icing . Then cover with rolled out blue fondant, roll out some yellow fondant for the sleeves and collar. I looked at a Sri Lanka flag and cut out colours of fondant strips and then hand moulded the lion and 4 leaves for the four corners of the flag.

Manique Abayasekara
Feb 18, 20241 min read


Easy Homemade Chili Sauce
my mums famous recipe to eat your boiled sweet potatoes/Mung bean/green gram or short eats!! Ingredients Vinegar Chili powder salt sugar...

Manique Abayasekara
Feb 14, 20241 min read


Stuffed Waffles
another gadget makes about 6 cups 8 stuffed waffles - savoury or sweet Ingredients 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp salt 2 tbsp baking...

Manique Abayasekara
Feb 3, 20241 min read


Cartoon Cake
Thanks to my Daughter Dushinka's Christmas Present of a voucher to attend the t-Lounge by Dilmah cartoon cake making class I learnt how to do this. Needed a crumb coated cake of your choice fondant - white, pink, black, red and yellow an extruder for fondant Rolling pin mat to roll on a toothpick a border or frame cut out with board water and paint brush cornflour to roll out fondant Method To make a tall cake take a cake tin of height 16 cm and 14 cm circumference. Make an

Manique Abayasekara
Feb 2, 20242 min read


Chocolate and Cream Fruit Salad
Ingredients Seedless Grapes Strawberries Tinned Peaches Tinned Pears or any on your choice for the cream 400g condensed milk (small tin) 400g heavy cream or (400g cream cheese if you prefer) 1 yolk of an egg 1 tsp Vanilla essence for the ganache (for a harder topping) 200 g chocolate slab 200 g Heavy cream (for a softer topping) 200 g chocolate slab 200 g cream cheese Method First wash all the fruits and keep to drain. Then cut the strawberries in small pieces, cut the grape

Manique Abayasekara
Dec 22, 20232 min read


Italian Sponge Cake
Ingredients 120 gm granulated sugar 4 extra large eggs at room temperature (each egg should weigh approx. 70 gms) A pinch of salt 1 tsp...

Manique Abayasekara
Dec 9, 20232 min read


Chicken bake another method
Ingredients Chicken breast (dending on how many you need) 3 Potatoes half a yellow and red Pepper a few pieces of cubed ham 1/4 tsp black...

Manique Abayasekara
Dec 9, 20231 min read


Homemade Christmas Chocolate Bark
Ingredients Slabs of Chocolate milk, dark and white smarties jellies gummy bears mini marshmallows sprinkles M&Ms mini oreo cookies Items...

Manique Abayasekara
Dec 9, 20231 min read


Christmas trees made with butter
Ingredients for plain butter Butter slightly soft or for any Herb Butter of your choice for Garlic Herb Butter unsalted butter parsley thyme chives garlic salt black pepper Method Chop the parsley, thyme, chives into small pieces, crush the garlic and mix in a bowl with the soft butter, add pepper and salt to taste. Then fill into the silicon mould and keep in freezer for at least 2 hours and then un mould. Cilantro Lime Herb Butter Ingredients 1/2 cup unsalted butter 1 clove

Manique Abayasekara
Dec 6, 20231 min read


Chicken Bake
Ingredients Chicken breast or thighs Small onions whole or large Fresh Potatoes Carrots Beans Capsicum chillies or peppers olive oil salt...

Manique Abayasekara
Dec 5, 20231 min read


Katta Sambal/Spicy Chili Sambal
Good to be eaten with Milk Rice/String Hoppers/Roti (flat bread) or Hoppers Ingredients 2 oz Dry Chillies or pieces 2 oz Onions 1/2 oz...

Manique Abayasekara
Dec 5, 20231 min read


Golfer Cake
I made a marbled cake, covered with buttercream icing and then covered with green fondant. hand made the golfer, the clubs and caddie...

Manique Abayasekara
Dec 5, 20231 min read


"Beatles" cake
This was made for a Beatles lover, looked at a photo and cut out fondant in the shapes of "The Beatles". I made a chocolate cake and...

Manique Abayasekara
Dec 5, 20231 min read


Ho-Ho-Ho edition - how to Chocolates-Cakes-Cookies
Santa, Snowman shaped Chocolate pops Christmas Tree Cookies Christmas cake pieces in cupcake cases Christmas Tree cake Chocolate Bonbon...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 27, 20231 min read


Chocolate is Happiness that you can eat!!
Bouquet of Flowers - Very creative to hand as a gift Needed home made chocolates of various fillings Chocolate Foil/wrapping paper BBQ...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 16, 20231 min read


Steamed Chocolate Cake – on stove top
Dry Ingredients 1 Cup Four 2 Tbsp Cocoa Powder 1 tsp Baking Powder ½ tsp Baking Soda ¾ cup Powdered Sugar Wet ingredients ¾ Cup Milk ¼...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 16, 20231 min read


Christmas edition - fondant how to
How to make an Edible Penguin with Fondant Items needed toothpicks rolling mat rolling pin paint brush water Black fondant White fondant...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 15, 20233 min read


Sponge Cake another method
Ingredients 4 large Eggs 1 cup Granulated Sugar 1 cup all-purpose Flour 1 tsp Baking Powder 1/4 tsp Salt 1 tsp Vanilla extract few drops...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 15, 20231 min read


Fudge Balls in Microwave
around 12 minutes Ingredients 1 small tin Condensed Milk (397g) 1/2 cup sugar 2 tbsp Butter 1 tsp vanilla essence raisins Remember your Gloves - it can get very hot!! Method Take a microwave dish which is deep or more flat at the base. do not use the glass bowl as shown as it rises too often to the top and I had to keep opening the microwave to stir it. It is safer to use a deep dish which has a wider base or a Pyrex jug. Keep it in the microwave for 5 minutes, take out and s

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 13, 20231 min read


Buckwheat/Sarrasin Pancakes
Ingredients 120g Buckwheat flour in Geneva/France is called Sarrasin 100g Applesauce - I made my own 1 Egg 200ml Milk 1 tsp Vanilla...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 13, 20231 min read


Chickpea Flour Pancakes
Ingredients 1 cup Chickpea Flour 1 cup water 1 tsp turmeric 1 tsp chili flakes salt and pepper to taste 1 tbsp olive oil Method Take a...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 8, 20231 min read
