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Celebrate New Year with this delicious Apple cake

Jayani SenanayakeDecember 30, 2016

As blessed with natural treasures as our paradise island is, it is not gifted with heaving apple trees laden with glossy fruit. We do however, are blessed with supermarkets who are generous enough to offer amazing discounts on apples! Apples wer... Read More...

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Spiced banana cake with nuts

Jayani SenanayakeDecember 9, 2016

Let me start by saying – this cake is famous. It is in fact, a bit of a celebrity. During my little stint at the Good Market (Yes, I’ve had a tiny little stall there, just for the heck of it for like a very few weeks and I still can’t believe I di... Read More...

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Pumpkin spiced cake

Jayani SenanayakeOctober 31, 2015

It’s Halloween today and if I don’t post up a pumpkin recipe, it would definitely be out of character. Especially since I’ve been busy making a few things with it for the past few weeks. I like all things pumpkin – the Sri Lanka pumpkin curry bein... Read More...

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Sri Lankan Love cake – Essentially Sri Lankan

Jayani SenanayakeOctober 5, 2015

If you’ve never had a piece of the world famous Sri Lankan Love cake in your life, you clearly have wasted your life so far. This is one of those wonderful hybrid yummies that evolved from the island’s colonial past, along with the decadent Christ... Read More...

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Cherry & White Chocolate Blondies

Jayani SenanayakeJune 19, 2015

This is the blondie that you momma warned you about! Seriously, I've been dreaming about cherries and white chocolate the whole week! And this is what I came up with. White chocolate blondies, with cherries no less! Could it get any better! The... Read More...

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Dark & White chocolate Brownies – Chocolate overdose

Jayani SenanayakeMay 24, 2015

I am not exaggerating or tooting my own horn when I say that my brownies are famous. It has so far been my signature dish. Among those who have tasted it, they have been ranked up and above all brownies that they have tasted so far - be it the countl... Read More...

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Sri Lankan Christmas Cake – A story of Fruit & Spice

Jayani SenanayakeDecember 27, 2014

The Sri Lankan Christmas cake. This should have been shared a few weeks back ideally, but fear not, it is not too late still! So the infamous Sri Lankan Christmas cake. Or the 'Rich cake' as we know it. The deceptively simple yet notoriously d... Read More...

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