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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.
Cayman Islands
The official national dessert of the Cayman Islands (gazetted in 2024); a very dense, slightly sweet and spicy cake made from grated cassava, coconut milk, brown sugar, butter, and spices (nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice, cloves); almost the consistency of bread pudding; can also be made with yam, sweet potato, pumpkin, or breadfruit.
Cayman Islands
World- rum cake baked in the Caribbean with walnuts, hand-glazed with special 5-year-old oak barrel aged Tortuga Gold Rum, then vacuum-sealed; the #1 export of the Cayman Islands; founded in 1987 using a four-generation family recipe; a Cayman product.