Samantha seneviratne

Samantha Seneviratne's The New Sugar & Spice Cookbook

Samantha Seneviratne is a chef, food stylist, recipe developer and cookbook author. Samantha has worked as a Food Editor at Good Housekeeping, Fine Cooking and Everyday Food. She is passionate about all things dessert.

Looking for an alternative to pumpkin pie? This pumpkin Bundt cake is a great option: baked with pumpkin pie spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves) and topped with a maple-mascarpone glaze, t…

It may strike you as curious, but adding an entire orange to this easy snacking cake, rind and all, imparts a wonderful flavor reminiscent of orange marmalade, pleasantly bitter and sweet. A high-speed blender is the best way to process the orange, but a food processor works too. You want the purée to be as smooth as possible. While the cake bakes, prepare an easy orange glaze. For that step — or any recipe requiring both orange zest and juice — be sure to zest your orange before juicing it…

Join chef Samantha Seneviratne as she makes Ginger-Raspberry Icebox Cake with Caramel Cream from the home kitchen. Perfect for warmer summer months when turning the oven on is the last thing on your mind, Sam's recipe sees ginger cookies soften into layers of tender cake surrounded by loads of raspberries and lofty caramel cream. Recipe here: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/ginger-raspberry-icebox-cake-with-caramel-cream

Anna Olson's favourite Christmas Cookies

New York City stinks. Garbage, exhaust, crowds of human beings, and who really knows what. Fortunately there are little pockets of fragrance everywhere. My favorite city smell comes from the street-nut carts. The men who mind the carts stand all day long tossing peanuts in sugar over heat in copper drums, sending burnished sugar smoke wafting down the sidewalk. There’s no need to advertise or call out for customers. That smell, on an early fall afternoon, half hot and half cool, is like a…

In Sri Lanka, coconut is in everything, sweet and savory alike. What else would you expect on a tropical island where big, beautiful coconuts grow on half the trees? It is tasty, nutritious, and even has magical healing properties. When I was a young, intrepid backyard-jungle explorer, I had more than a few unfortunate encounters with fire ants. I remember vividly how my grandmother’s gentle application of coconut oil to the bites always eased the pain. I’ve been using coconut oil in my…

Samantha Seneviratne on Instagram: "Did you know that you are just 15 mins away from warm chocolate cake?! Get my recipe @nytcooking!"

Samantha Seneviratne on Instagram: "Today I’m showing you how to make the Frangipane Brownies from my new book, Bake Smart! If you need a last minute dessert for Thanksgiving, this is an easy one!"

These classic, tender cookies taste of sweet butter, cinnamon — and not much else. Since ground cinnamon plays such an important role, be sure to check that it's still fresh and spicy before making these treats. The cookies' secret ingredient, cream of tartar, is an acidic salt and a byproduct of wine making. Often used to help stabilize egg whites for meringues or as the acidic component of baking powder, it helps these cookies stay soft and chewy.

MAKES 48 COOKIES Recipe excerpt from BAKE SMART by Samantha Seneviratne. Copyright © 2023 by Samantha Seneviratne. Used with permission by Harvest, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. Photography © Johnny Miller. Did you know that you can swap in cottage cheese for yogurt, sour cream, or buttermilk in your favorite cakes and […]

Creamy coconut-flavored rice, tender shrimp, and sweet corn. This fast and easy-to-make recipe is a winner all the way around.

This sticky semolina cake is the first cake I ever made in my grandmother’s kitchen in Sri Lanka. The fragrant, cashew-studded treat is served throughout the country at teatime or whenever guests come calling. The dense crumb and chewy edges remind me of something that would happen if a butter cake and a blondie had a baby—a pleasingly crunchy, tender, and sweet love child. In the oven, the rose water, honey, cardamom, and cinnamon start to bloom. This cake doubles as aromatherapy.

Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Founding Editor and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook. Prolific doesn’t begin to

The compost cookie has nothing to do with garbage. It's a butter and brown sugar cookie loaded with bits of candy and snack food. It sounds strange but it tastes divine. Invented by Christina Tosi, the sugar genius behind Momofuku Milk Bar, the cookie has become an Internet sensation. It's no wonder. It's a brilliant idea and a truly decadent dessert. But what if you want to put your own spin on it? The compost cookie can be your edible canvas. The recipe is easy to alter to any…

They say that freshly ground black pepper wakes up the salivary glands and enhances our ability to taste food. Who wouldn’t want to taste their brownies more completely?

Pistachios are the star of this cake. Instead of a butter cake with the occasional bite of pistachio, this is a dense, nutty cake completely permeated by nuts. Replacing most of the flour with ground pistachios gives the cake a coarse, almost chewy texture and intense flavor. It's lovely without, but if you'd like you can also top it with a simple lemon glaze made by combining lemon juice and confectioners' sugar.

[IMAGE] Allow us to present these guava bars for your baking consideration. The treats come to us from Samantha Seneviratne’s new cookbook, Bake Smart: Sweets and Secrets from My Oven to Yours, and are just the snack to brighten any day. And while the sanding sugar adds “a little sparkle and crunch,” she told us you could swap it with demerara sugar if that’s what you have on hand — or simply omit it. Guava is the star ingredient here, but we were curious whether we could use a different…

I was four years old when we moved into a brand-new house in South Windsor, Connecticut. One afternoon, my father decided I needed friends and walked me and Norman down to the local playground to meet the neighborhood children. Norman gave me strength. A sweet, fuzzy-headed, thumb-sucking baby monkey doll. To rest, he slipped perfectly inside an 8-inch yellow felt banana-shaped sleeping bag. Norman was my comfort and conversation starter when I met new kids. I can’t decide whether I’ve heard…