For me, the holidays aren’t complete without holiday baking and cookie jars filled with delicious homemade cookies. I bake shortbread cookies, sugar cookies, and gingerbread cookies …
dessert
Sri-Lankan Milk Toffee
Milk Toffee is a popular Sri-Lankan sweet that is often made for birthdays and holidays. It is my dad’s favourite sweet as well as my daughter’s so …
Bread Pudding
Bread pudding is a popular baked dessert made from stale or day old bread soaked in a custard-like mixture of milk, eggs, butter and sugar. Spices, usually cinnamon …
Carrot Halwa
When my husband and I take our kids out grocery shopping we always divide into two teams: the girls team and the boys team. We …
Traditional Milk Payasam
Payasam, similar to rice pudding, is made with tapioca and sometimes broken pieces of vermicilli boiled in milk and sugar. It is typically served as …
Pineapple Rava Kesari (Semolina Pudding)
Rava Kesari is a popular sweet made from semolina, sugar and ghee. It is actually one of the first sweets that I had the confidence …
Chocolate Chip & Pecan Cookies
My children and their father LOVE chocolate chip cookies, and so this recipe is one that gets requested often. As I have stated (probably every …
Lemon-Blueberry Bundt Cake
It is the first day of March and the perfect time to share my recipe for Lemon-Blueberry Bundt Cake. The refreshing lemon in this recipe reminds me so much of …
Carrot Cake
I usually share my healthier recipes in hopes of inspiring you all to become more healthy-eaters but since posting the picture of the carrot cake I made to celebrate …
Homemade Strawberry Sauce
My kids absolutely love strawberry sauce and they will eat it with anything. We use it as a topping on ice-cream, waffles, pancakes, cheesecakes, and even Greek yogurt. …