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Sugar Cake

Name: Sugar Cake
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Grenada
Ingredients: 200g Shredded Coconut; 250g Sugar; 150ml Water; 1 piece Ginger; A pinch Vanilla Extract

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐

Coconut cooked down with sugar and ginger and set — colorful Grenadian sweets.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sugar cake is a coconut sweet made in Grenada and across the Caribbean: grated coconut is cooked down with sugar and ginger and dropped by small spoonfuls to set. It's often tinted pink or green and is a staple children's snack and festival stall treat.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a stall in a Grenadian market, small pink and white coconut sweets are laid out on trays as children point at them.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Shredded Coconut 200g
Sugar 250g
Water 150ml
Ginger 1 piece
Vanilla Extract A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring the sugar, water, and grated ginger to a boil in a pot.
Add the coconut and cook down on low for 15 minutes, stirring.
Add the vanilla and cook until thick and holding together.
Drop small spoonfuls onto parchment paper.
Let cool to set.

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