List of Sri Lankan sweets and desserts

This is a list of notable Sri Lankan sweets and desserts. Sri Lanka is well known throughout South Asia for sweets and desserts originating from there. Desserts are usually served as part of main meals, whereas sweets are consumed at tea times.
Many Sri Lankan desserts and sweets contain domestic spices, jaggery and kithul treacle. Locally made treacle and jaggery are the most common sweeteners.Sri Lanka's most famous sweet as acknowledged by all Sri Lankan is kawum.

Sweets

Commonly used ingredients across traditional Sri Lankan sweets are Rice flour, treacle and coconut milk. Treacle is a food sweetening syrup made from the sap oozing from "tapped" blossoms of palm trees, particularly, Coconut or "Kithul".

Name	Image	Main ingredients	Description
Aasmi		Rice flour, coconut milk and the juice of cinnamon leaves	Deep fried but served cooled. Popular treat served at Sinhalese New Year and special events.
Aggala		Kithul treacle, rice flour, pepper	Spicy sweet. Mostly prepared for tea time in villages.
Aluwa		Rice flour, sugar, milk, butter, spices	Popular among Sinhalese. Served at cultural festivals.
Athirasa		Rice flour, treacle, coconut milk	A very popular and culturally important Sinhalese sweet. Diamond or round shaped batter deep fried in hot oil.
Bibikkan		Semolina, raisins, treacle, rice flour, scrapped coconut, spices and flavours	Similar to fruit cake.
Dosi		Fruit, sugar, water	candied fruit
Green Gram cake		Rice flour, mung flour, treacle, ghee, spices	A popular Sinhalese sweet fried in oil often used at cultural events.
Halapa		rice flour, kurakkan flour	It's usually wrapped in a leaf.
Kalu Dodol		kithul jaggery, rice flour, coconut milk, and cashew nuts	Sri Lankan dodol. Household sweet, usually served at tea time and special events. Prepared by boiling Coconut milk and Kitul Juggery in big Pan and adding rice flour, cashew nut and spices to the reduced mix.
Kesari bhath		Rava, cardamon, sugar, ghee	A South Indian sweet now very popular among Tamils, who cook it for celebrations.
Kevum		Rice flour, treacle, coconut milk	A very popular Sinhalese sweet. Fried in hot oil pan individually. The small bump at top gives the name 'konda'.Ladies with special skill to get "Kanda" wins respect.
Kiri aluwa		Condensed milk, sugar, cashew nuts, cardamom	soft milk toffee
Kokis		Rice flour, coconut milk	Crispy biscuit-like, Of Dutch origin
Lavariya		Rice flour, Pol Pani	Soft string hoppers filled with caramelised coconut
Popo		Coconut, sugar, flour, essence	Used in rituals and special events.
Sowboro		Flour, sugar, rulan, scraped coconut, butter and salt	Popular biscuit among Sinhalese, available only in village boutiques and fairs.
Undu Walalu/Undu Wal or Pani Walalu		Urad bean flour and kithul treacle	Tasty crispy tubes filled with Kithul treacle. Looks like earthworm but a world class sweet, unique to Sri Lanka.
Weli Thalapa		Rice flour, scraped coconut, Kitul or coconut treacle, spices	Household sweet, usually served at tea time. Prepared in two step process, first is to prepare Pittu with Rice flour and second to mix that with Kitul / Coconut treacle.