Dessert Recipes

The ultimate Sri Lankan comfort dessert: alternating layers of milk-soaked Marie biscuits and rich, buttery chocolate icing.

Bright pink, chewy, and intensely coconutty sweets made with freshly grated coconut and sugar. A vibrant and nostalgic treat.

Incredibly sweet, rich, and crumbly-yet-fudgy milk toffee squares made with condensed milk and sugar, studded with cashew nuts.

Soft, thin, turmeric-tinted crepes rolled around a sweet, sticky, cardamom-scented caramelized coconut and jaggery filling.

A rich, creamy, fudge-like Sri Lankan sweet made from condensed milk, sugar, butter, and cashew nuts — a beloved homemade confection prepared for the New Year and given as gifts.

A refreshing, wobbly, and lightly sweetened Sri Lankan coconut milk jelly — a simple and elegant dessert made with coconut milk and agar-agar, perfect for a warm tropical day.

Delicate steamed rice flour dumplings filled with a sweet coconut and jaggery mixture — a simple, traditional Sri Lankan treat enjoyed as a snack or dessert.

Sweet, fudgy, melt-in-the-mouth Sri Lankan milk toffee squares made from rice flour, sugar, milk, and cardamom — a simple but utterly addictive traditional New Year confection.

Beautiful, paper-thin, crispy deep-fried rice flour cookies made using a special flower-shaped iron mold — a beloved Sri Lankan New Year treat of Dutch Burgher origin.

A traditional Sri Lankan deep-fried sweet cake made from rice flour, jaggery, and coconut milk — a festive delicacy prepared during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year celebrations.

A luscious, silky Sri Lankan Malay-influenced steamed pudding made with jaggery, coconut milk, eggs, and warm spices — one of the most beloved and iconic desserts of Sri Lanka.

Italian hot chocolate is legendary. It is not a thin, milky drink, but rather a dense, rich, pudding-like chocolate that you can almost eat with a spoon.