Mangos a la canela

🇸🇴Somalia

Coconut Confection

Gashaato

A coconut-based Somali confection; listed in Wikipedia's Somali cuisine; a sweet treat made from coconut, sugar, and spices; often served at celebrations and alongside xalwo; a popular Somali dessert; the coconut sweet of Somalia; found at weddings, holidays, and sweet shops.

🇰🇲Comoros

Ladu

Coarsely ground raw rice cooked in ghee until browned, then mixed with powdered sugar, cardamom, and coarsely ground black pepper; shaped into balls or bricks; a distinctive sweet-spicy Comorian sweet.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Ladob

Seychelles' signature dessert — ripe plantains and sweet potatoes (or cassava, breadfruit, or corosol) boiled with coconut milk, sugar, nutmeg, and vanilla pod until the fruit is soft and the sauce is creamy; also made as a savoury dish with salted fish, plantain, cassava, and breadfruit (with salt instead of sugar, no vanilla); an echo of French daube.

🇸🇨Seychelles

Moutay

Traditional Seychellois sweet made from rice flour, similar to Indian jalebies; a deep-fried sweet soaked in syrup; reflects the Indian influence on Seychellois cuisine; a popular treat at festivals and celebrations.

🇲🇶Martinique

Bananas Flambé

Banane Flambée

Bananas caramelized in butter and sugar, then flambéed with rum. Martinique's banane flambée uses rhum agricole, while Bermuda's Flaming Bananas commonly uses Gosling's Black Seal and may arrive with vanilla ice cream or crème fraîche.

🇲🇽Mexico

Camotes Enmielados

Sweet potatoes simmered in a piloncillo syrup, sometimes with cinnamon or guava — a street-side treat.

🇲🇽Mexico

Piloncillo

Unrefined cane sugar pressed into cones, the backbone of Mexican sweets and drinks.

🇵🇦Panama

Plátanos en Tentación

Panamanian ripe plantains baked in a sweet brown-sugar sauce with cinnamon, often topped with cheese.