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Saint Martin
Coconut Tart
A pastry filled with grated coconut, sugar, and spices; a local bakery specialty in Anguilla, often served with vanilla ice cream; a classic island dessert. Across the islands this coconut-filled tart is baked as a bakery sweet, with local notes ranging from Anguillian spice to Sint Maarten and Cayman fillings.
Aruba
Pastechi
A traditional Aruban breakfast and snack: a deep-fried crescent pastry filled with cheese, chicken, beef, tuna, or vegetables, seasoned with onion, green pepper, celery, raisins, cumin, nutmeg, and hot pepper.
Anguilla
Festival
Sweetened cornmeal and flour dough rolled into a finger shape and deep-fried until golden — the fixed accompaniment to jerk and fried fish.
Turks and Caicos Islands
Coconut Pie
Coconut custard pie on a digestive biscuit base, topped with whipped cream and toasted coconut flakes; a Turks and Caicos dessert; a traditional island sweet; a distinctive TCI treat.