Milk Toffee

Milk Toffee is a Sri Lankan treat. It's delicious with raisins and cashews. Great with a cup of tea or coffee.

Ingredients

1 can of 300 ml Condensed Milk
300 g sugar
Vanilla essence
Rose essence and
25g cashew (finely chopped)
2 table spoons of butter
2 table spoons of water

Method

Butter a flat tray and keep it on a side.
Add the sugar to a large saucepan on stove top. Add 2 table spoons of water and stir well for 3-4 minutes then add the condensed milk. Keep stirring for 15 minutes.

While adding the cashew, half a tea spoon of Vanilla essence and 2-4 drops of rose essence. When the mixture starts to get thick, add 1 tbsp butter and stir up to about 5 minutes.

Take off stove top and pour the thick mixture on to the tray we set aside earlier. Spread and flatten using a spatula or the back of a spoon.

Leave until hardened and cut in to small pieces of your choice.

Sweet Puffs

Ingredients

2 cups flour

2 table spoon sugar 

2 table spoon milk powder

1 tea spoon yeast

1 egg

Icing sugar

Salt

Method

In a bowl add all the dry ingredients and mix well. Then add enough water and make a soft dough.

Doughnut

Ingredients

2 cups Flour
100g sugar
5 tbls butter
1 egg
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
Pinch of salt.
milk

Gulab Jamuns

Ingredients

Syrup

1kg Sugar
4 cups water
1/4 tsp cardamon

Heat the sugar with water until the sugar dissolves.Then bring to a boilHeat it for about 5 minutes to thickens.Set aside.

For jamuns

400g Milk powder

8tbl spn flour

1/2 tbl spn baking powder

11 ounce fresh milk (5 1/2 + 5 1/2)

120 g butter

Method

Combine the milk powder, baking powder, butter and flour together.Then add 1/2 of the milk.Then mix it gently to make a dough.Keep it for half hour.

Now add the remaining  and kneed well.If the dough is very sticky and balls are hard to form, add little flour.

Then make balls and deep fry it and when it turn to the desired shade of brown, remove balls  and put in sugar syrup.

Semolina Ladoo

Ingredients

2cups semolina

2cups sugar

1/2 cup coconut

1 cup ghee

1tsp cardamom

100g roasted cashew nuts

5tbls milk powder

Italian Pastry Twists

Ingredients

250g flour

1 egg

salt

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

50g melted butter 

25g sugar

45-60ml water

Icing sugar for dusting

Turkish Delight

Ingredients

4 cups sugar
1 1/2cups corn flour
1 tea spn cream of tata
4 1/4 cup water
1 tsp lime juice
1 1/2 tbl spn rose water
1 cup icing sugar
 red food coloring