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You can see the moods created on top of the iced cupcake to imply that expressions are unique to us, humans: Cool faces, mild faces, wild faces, glamours faces with pouting lips and guys with cool glasses and some sad faces with a single tear.  You can set your creative ideas to take over and enjoy doing something unique and beautiful to make yours look special! I used ready-to-roll icing in different colours to make the features.  Delicious homemade butter icing (recipe is given below) is smeared liberally on all the cupcakes. I normally bake the cupcakes on the previous day and let them cool off completely.  The next day, you have all the time and energy to spare for decorating them elaborately.  If you couple both on the same day, you could be too tired to launch yourself in decorating them at your heart’s desire. So, let’s start, You will need the following ingredients Self Raising flour 250 g Margarine or butter softened (30 secs in the microwave ) 250 g ...

With its g orgeous looks, this Swiss sponge roll is a real beauty that could win the crown! As Valentine’s day is around the corner, I painted a few hearts on the sponge to display a festive notion relevant to the occasion; you need some liquid food colouring and a good quality paintbrush to paint a simple design on the cake.  Quite a simple decorative idea but the enhanced appearance is a real winner of hearts! So, let’s make this beauty and bring a special glow of love to this Valentine’s day! Get ready with the following ingredients : For the cake  Plain Flour  50 g  Sugar (white caster is best)  120 g  Eggs  3 whites and yellows separated  Baking Powder  1 tsp  Corn Flour  1 tbsp Yellow food colour 3 drops (optional)  Salt 3 pinches ( this is a must to take the blandness of egg whites away)  Vanilla  1 tsp Let’s make the sponge roll first Set the Oven to 180 C Beat eggs Separate the egg whites a...

This delicious, silky smooth chicken-sweetcorn soup, served with homemade croutons on the side, is a real winter warmer! Serve this soup as a starter in the cold winter months or serve to someone who is just recovering from a nasty cold.  Kids too will love the soft bite of sweetcorn and the crunchiness of the buttered croutons floating on the soup. I fried the croutons with a little butter on the pan, instead of making them in the oven, which I found much easier and less time-consuming too.  To my delight I found them beautifully buttery and crunchy, just the perfect crusty accompaniment for the soup! You need the following ingredients to make this soup: Chicken breast/pieces without bones 100 g Corn flour 1 tbsp Warm water 2 cups Sweetcorn 1/4 cup Vinegar 1/4 tsp Salt and pepper to taste   Eggs  1 Onion  1 Garlic  3 cloves Spring onion chopped 1 tbsp Soy sauce 1/2 tbsp Olive oil or any cooking oil 1 tbsp Let’s make : Heat oil in a heavy bottom ...

These warm, spicy egg rotis are very popular Sri Lankan street food among urban and village folks alike and it is hard to find anyone who has not tasted these. Now that the trend is to make all these street food at home more hygienically, I have taken the opportunity to post my mum’s authentic recipe here. The street food vendors usually drench the dough with oil and make it more appealing in appearance but to keep it less in calories and healthy, I added the minimum required oil, keeping the taste intact! Remember to serve these straight out of the pan to be eaten piping hot! So, let’s get started; Make the dough for rotis You will need  All-purpose flour  2 cups  Salt  1/2 tsp  Olive oil (Any cooking oil would do)  1 tbsp  Sugar  1/2 tsp Baking powder  1/2 tsp Knead Rub flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and oil together Add lukewarm water little by little and knead for about 5 – 8 mins until the dough doesn’t ...

These dangerously addictive vegetable rotis are the most sorted street food in Sri Lanka! They are spicy, delicious, and wholesome! Whosoever tasted, would naturally want more! However, you can make a healthier version of these at home, keeping the same taste and appearance but with less oil and more fresh vegetables. It is a bit of a cumbersome task to knead the floor to bring to the right texture but when it is being achieved, the rotis are soft and perfect in taste. I have used a generous amount of veggies and very little oil in this recipe to keep it healthy and appetising at the same time. So, let’s make it, 1st Step: Make the dough for Rotis You will need :  All-purpose flour  3 cups  Salt  1 tsp Oil  1 tbsp  Sugar  1 tsp Knead Rub flour, sugar, salt and oil together Add lukewarm water little by little and knead for about 5 – 8 mins until the dough doesn’t stick on to your fingers Divide into equal sized balls giving an extra kn...

This is most certainly not for the faint-hearted! Believe me the chilli base in this dish will shock your tastebuds initially but in a very enticing way! Be cautious, your tastebuds will demand more and you will end up addicted to this fiery chili prawns in no time at all! King prawns, fresh or frozen are best for this dish.  You must rub a little lemon juice after giving them a good clean up to take that fishy smell away. Make this dish on a cold and miserable rainy day to make the atmosphere a bit lively! Ingredients needed; King Prawns – washed, deveined, shell removed 250 g Red, Green, Yellow bell peppers 1 each cubed Brown sugar 2 pinches Soy sauce 2 tbsp Garlic cloves  3 Onion  1 big cubed Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp Turmeric  1/2 tsp each Salt 1/4 tsp Chilli powder 1/2 tbsp Chinese chilli paste (optional) 1 tbsp heap Oil 1 tbsp Juice of lemon 1 tbsp Let’s Make ; Marinate Rub salt, ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, and lemon juice ...

The rich scent of bananas and the super moist texture in this cake is simply intoxicating! Believe me, the satisfaction of eating a slice of this with a hot cup of tea in the afternoon could revive you instantly. I feel it is a perfect combination of all the best things in one place; melt in the mouth texture, the rich taste, and the sweet banana scent! Overripe bananas in your fruit bowl are ideal with their taste and scent for this cake.  So, never bin them again. Bake this and take it to your ailing aunt, a good friend, your mum who is alone in an empty nest, or anyone who is struggling with a bad patch and watch how quickly their faces light up, as soon as they taste this beautiful cake. I added raisins to give the cake a bit more richness but if you prefer chocolate chips, that too goes perfectly well. Do not add too much of either, as the taste of banana should be the highlight of this cake. If you prefer just a plain cake just go ahead! I sometimes bake it plain but th...