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Antigua and Barbuda
Sugar Cake
Chewy confection of grated coconut cooked down with sugar, often tinted pink and flavoured with ginger or nutmeg; a classic Antiguan sweet treat; the mixture is often divided into two batches, one coloured pink and the other left white, poured one over the other to form a pink and white cake; found at markets and schoolyards; the sugar cake of Antigua.
Barbados
Sweet bread
A dense coconut loaf with cherries and raisins, brushed with sugar water so the top glazes, sold by the slab in bakeries.
Barbados
A dark, rum-soaked fruitcake of dried fruit, brown sugar and spices, the traditional Christmas cake of Guyana and the Caribbean.
Trinidad and Tobago
Grated cassava, coconut and pumpkin baked with sugar, spice and evaporated milk into a dense, chewy slab.
Barbados
A tall, heavily fruited and rum-soaked cake baked in tiers for weddings and Christmas, kept fed with rum for weeks before it is cut.