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Benny Cake

Name: Benny Cake
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Bahamas
Ingredients: 150g White Sesame Seeds; 150g Brown sugar; 3 tbsp Water; 10g Butter; A pinch Salt

Dessert

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐

Sesame bound with molasses — an old-fashioned Bahamian sesame candy.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Benny cake is a traditional Bahamian sweet: benne (sesame) is toasted, mixed with a syrup of dark sugar or molasses cooked down, spread flat, and left to set. Calling sesame 'benne' is said to come from a West African word, and the candy is said to have been brought by people taken from Africa.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At the sweets counter of a Bahamian market, brown sesame slabs are broken into squares and laid out wrapped in paper.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

White Sesame Seeds 150g
Brown sugar 150g
Water 3 tbsp
Butter 10g
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Toast the sesame in a frying pan until fragrant.
Boil the dark sugar and water in a pot until thick and it forms threads.
Add the butter, salt, and sesame and mix quickly.
Spread thinly on parchment paper.
Score before it sets and break apart once cool.

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