Jamaican Grater Cake
Jamaican Grater Cake is not a cake rather it is a candy. It is sweet, rich and creamy all at the same time.
Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- ½ inch ginger root
- 2 cups grated coconut (1 medium)
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon food colour
Instructions
- Crack open coconut. Remove coconut flesh from the shell. Peel off the brown skin which is totally optional.
- Wash and grate coconut flesh using a box grater, blender or a food processor.
- Prepare a cake tin, casserole dish or any suitable container by rubbing vegetable oil in them.
- In a saucepan, put water, sugar and ginger, place over medium heat.
- Cook until sugar melts and the liquid is reduced but before it caramelizes and changes colour.
- If the ginger is not aromatic at this stage, continue with the dish and remove ginger when you can smell it well.
- Cook until it has reduced, stirring frequently. in coconut and salt to this syrup and reduce the heat to medium-low.
- Stir in vanilla and keep stirring until the mixture starts coming off the sides of the pan. Take off the heat.
- Scoop about 2/3 of the mixture into the prepared pan, spread loosely.
- Add the colour to the remaining 1/3 of the coconut. Mix well and spread on top of the white in the bowl.
- Set aside for 25-30 minutes to cool down and harden.
- When formed, cut into bars and serve.
- Store in an airtight container in the fridge.
