For the Sweet Tooth

For the Sweet Tooth

If you have a ‘sweet tooth’ and enjoy tropical fruits you’d enjoy traditional Jamaican sweets and pastries made with local fruits and lots of sugar. Here are just a few that you must have.

Gizzada is an adaptation of a Portuguese sweet; made with grated coconut with a pastry base.
Coconut drops are sweets made with diced coconut, sugar and ginger.
Grater cake is a dessert of grated coconut in a fondant of sugar.
Stagga Back/Busta is a dark, hard sweet made from grated coconut and wet sugar.
Banana fritters is a light pastry, perfect for breakfast with banana as the key ingredient, along with eggs, flour, sugar and spices with a little cinnamon and vanilla.
Plantain tart is a pastry with ripe plantain as the key ingredient.
Sweeting potato pudding has a rich mixture of evaporated milk, coconut milk, sugar, vanilla, nutmeg, salt, sherry, rum and butter with grated sweet potato.
Tamarind balls are made with the fruit's sticky flesh rolled with brown sugar into round sweet and sour balls.