Local Kittitian Sugar Cake

Grated coconut, boiled cane sugar, ginger. The Caribbean's most resilient sweet.

Sugar cake is grated coconut and boiled cane sugar, stirred together with a small amount of ginger and tipped onto a board to set. No condensed milk, no butter. Just sugar and coconut, cooked until the syrup grabs the coconut and holds it in place forever. The school sweet of every Kittitian who is now over forty. Slightly chewy at the edges, soft in the middle, the colour of weak tea.

Single piece in paper wrap. Keeps for weeks in a tin. The pocket gift.