Coconut sugar cakes are known to nearly every school child in Caribbean. Made from grated coconut they are traditionally cut into squares comprised of 2 layers and/or colors .
Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
2 cups grated coconut
1/2 cup water
2 drops almond essence
How To Make Coconut Sugar Cake
Boil Sugar and water until sugar is dissolved. Add Coconut and essence and cook over medium heat stirring all the time until mixture begin to look “grainy”. Remove from heat and beat for few minutes. Then drop smal quantities into small mounds on a greased baking sheet. Allow to cool and harden.
Recipe by:Yolande Cools-Lartigue author of The Art of Caribbean Cooking.
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Cut sponge cake into thins slices and spread jam over each slice. Place in bottom of dish with jam side facing up. Sprinkle with sherry, cover and refrigerate. Make custard with milk, butter and sugar in a saucepan over heart. Add vanilla. Soften custard powder with a little cold water and add to heated milk stirring until thickened. Cool and pour over cake slices. Drain fruit and spread over custard. Chill for 2-3 hours. In the meantime grate coconut and extract milk through clean cloth by squeezing small quantities of coconut at a time. Pour milk over trifle and refrigerate for another 2 hours. Whip egg white until stiff; gradually add sugar (1 tablespoon) beating until well blended. Gently spoon over trifle and sprinkle with chopped nuts and serve.
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The Caribbean on a whole brings to you a unique ethnic and topical collection of foods mix together with herbs and spices. These Caribbean recipes have evolving throughout the years due to the various cultural influences in the art of Caribbean cooking. Caribbean people love food and music. These foods are spicy or mild reflecting the taste of the individual. Some dishes are delicate in taste, subtle in flavor, reflecting years of cross cultural influences.
Caribbean cooking really is a world of its own. Caribbean recipe blog has a larger collection of traditional Caribbean cooking recipes from all the different Caribbean islands, if each island unique way of cooking these recipes. Enjoy and learn more about Caribbean cuisine.
