Crater Cake a very sweet pastry, but very delicious. Don’t eat too much though. You can make this pastry plain or with a colored decoration at the top like the picture below or you can add a cherry at the top of each one. You many find this delicious pastry in food shops or some restaurant along with other Jamaican pastries.
Recipe
Make about 10-12
2 cups of dry grated coconut (peel the back of the coconut off)
2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup water
1 tsp of almond extract
pinch of salt
Preparation
- (1) Combine all ingredient in a thick bottom pot and put on medium low heat
- (2) Boil until coconut is cooked and most of the water is dried out
- (3) Keep turning coconut until the texture is sticky (do not let it burn)
- (4) Remove mixture from heat and keep mixing for about 2 minutes
- (5) Pour mixture in a greased square dish about 8×8″, press down with the back of a spoon
- (6) When it’s cool and and almost set cut with a knife in different shapes like above. Let it sits and harden.
- Optional: You can take out some of the mixture, add a tip of food coloring to that mixture and drop on top of the ones you cut,
- made sure it’s not harden, if it is a little hard, you can rest it on the fire and soften it up with a teaspoon of water. You can also add a cherry on top.
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Jamaican Coconut Grater Cake
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