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CAKES


Easy Apple Cake
Ingredients 3 Eggs 1/4 tsp Salt 1 tsp Vanilla sugar 130g Sugar 80g Vegetable oil 150ml Milk 210g All-purpose flour 1 tbsp Baking powder For the topping 2 Apples 2 tbsp Lemon juice 1 tbsp Sugar Cinnamon to taste For the glace 40g Butter 2 tbsp Brown sugar 2 tbsp Lemon juice Method Set the oven to 180°C. Keep a buttered loaf pan ready before you start. Take a bowl and add the 3 eggs and beat very well with a hand/Electric whisk. Add the salt, sugar, vanilla sugar and stir/be

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Nov 24, 20250 min read


Ribbon Cake
This is Portia Kelaart Foulstone's recipe on Sri Lanka Food Lovers (Facebook). For the Cake Ingredients 250g butter - unsalted 225g...

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Sep 25, 20253 min read


Wedding Cake or Rich cake
I use the same recipe for my Christmas cakes (Step by Step) My method (10 pounds) originally mums recipe!! Made 70 pounds for our...

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Jul 16, 20254 min read


Apple Cake with Caramel topping
Ingredients 1/2 cup butter 1 2/3 cups sugar 2 eggs 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 1...

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Jun 27, 20252 min read


Victoria Sponge
Ingredients 285g Self-raising flour 2.5 tsp Baking powder 285g Margarine 285g Caster Sugar 5 Eggs Raspberry or Strawberry Jam 2 greased...

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Feb 26, 20252 min read


Dark Fruit Cake
Ingredients 1 cup unsalted butter, softened 1 cup brown sugar 4 large eggs 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp cinnamon...

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Dec 15, 20242 min read


Apple and Cherry cake
Ingredients 2 Apples a box of Cherries (around 20) 3 eggs 100 g unsalted butter 120 g sugar 1/2 tsp salt 230 g flour 1 Tbsp baking powder...

Manique Abayasekara
Dec 9, 20241 min read


Coconut Cake
(Bibikkan) - Sri Lankan Ingredients 225 g jaggery 225 g coconut 50 g semolina 100 g dates ½ teaspoon fennel 1 cardamom...

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Oct 6, 20241 min read


Rainbow Cake
Ingredients 2 ½ cups Flour 2 cups Sugar 2 ¼ tsp Baking powder ½ tsp Salt ¾ cup veg Oil 4 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup milk Red colour food...

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Oct 4, 20241 min read


Nescafe Cake
my sister Kissan’s method Ingredients 300 g Flour 1tsp baking power ½ tsp baking soda Salt a pinch 200 g butter 2 eggs 225 g sugar 2 tsp...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 1, 20241 min read


Chocolate Vanilla Marble cake
Marble cake is a cake with a streaked appearance (like marble) achieved by very lightly blending light and dark batter. It can be a...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 30, 20241 min read


Microwave Chocolate Cake
Ingredients 130g flour 20g chocolate powder 2 tsp baking powder 150g butter 150g eggs (around 3 medium) 150g sugar Method Sieve flour,...

Manique Abayasekara
Sep 8, 20241 min read


Mango Cake another method
Ingredients Either a chocolate cake, butter cake or sponge cake Fresh mango or tin of mango slices in syrup or stewed mangoes Mango Puree...

Manique Abayasekara
Jul 28, 20241 min read


Coffee Cake with Butter Cake recipe
this quantity makes two pounds Ingredients ½ lb flour ½ lb sugar ½ lb butter ½ lb eggs (about 4 eggs) 2 tsp baking powder 1 tbsp Nescafe dissolved in 2 – 3 tbsp of hot milk Add a little milk for dropping consistency Method Beat butter and sugar till it creams. Separate the eggs and mix in one egg yolk at a time into the butter mix. Add the vanilla essence and add the coffee essence. Sieve the flour and baking powder three times and leave aside till needed. Beat the whites til

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Jul 1, 20241 min read


Brownies - another way
Ingredients 375g soft unsalted butter 375g best quality dark chocolate 6 large eggs 1 tbsp vanilla extract 500g caster sugar 225g plain...

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 18, 20241 min read


Fresh Apricot Cake
Apricots over ripe or going to waste?? Ingredients 550 g fresh Apricots (its ok if it is less) 1 Tbsp lemon juice 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup...

Manique Abayasekara
May 17, 20241 min read


Easy Banana cake – for those very ripe bananas – serves 10
Ingredients 125g butter 150g caster sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 egg, beaten 2 very ripe bananas, mashed 190g self-raising flour...

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 2, 20241 min read


Fruit cake
Ingredients 180g Butter 150g Sugar 1/4 tsp Salt 3 Eggs 180g Sultanas 75g orange peel 75g Lemon peel 75g candied cherries 40g dried...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 26, 20241 min read


Sponge cake for Swiss Roll
Ingredients 5 large eggs 100 g sugar 20 g milk 20 g vegetable oil 100g cake flour or all purpose flour Method Pre-heat the oven to 180...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 7, 20241 min read
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