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Is this list accurate? Found this on my news feed this morning
Link: 11 Jamaican Desserts and Sweet Treats Your Taste Buds Will Love

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1)Sweet Potato Pudding​

This popular dessert is affectionately called "hell a top, hell a bottom and hallelujah in the middle" because it's baked with coals layered above and below. A good Sweet Potato Pudding should be crusted on top and the bottom and perfectly moist in the middle. That's what locals call the hallelujah in the middle!

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2) Rum Cake​

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3)Coconut Toto​

Coconut toto, also called toto (pronounced toe-to), is a coconut-flavored Jamaican dessert. With its long history and origin dating back to slavery, Toto has become an island favorite over the centuries. Think of a soft yet crumbly coconut-flavored cake, and that's toto.
 
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4) Gizzada​

Quite a few Jamaican desserts have one ingredient in common—and gizzada is no exception. Coconuts are an affordable way to make a great dessert. To make gizzadas, combine grated coconut with brown sugar and bake in a pinched crust.

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5) Tamarind Balls​

This famous childhood treat is a homemade take on a natural candy. The sour tamarind fruit is taken from its shell and separated, rounded into balls, then coated with sugar. The result is a sour-sweet natural candy every kid wants to try.

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Banana Pancake​

Try making a homemade Jamaican banana pancake! You'll need flour, sugar, salt and a few ripe bananas to make a batch of banana fritters. Despite its gray appearance, this dessert packs a punch in the flavor department—and it makes a great meal on its own.
 

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7) Bulla Cake​

Bulla cake or bulla is a Jamaican dessert made with molasses and spices. Made popular by its introduction into the school lunch system, bulla is a seasonal delight that adults pair with avocado or cheese.

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8) Coconut Drops​

Coconut drops are the perfect snack for the coconut lover with a sweet tooth. With only a few ingredients, they're easy to make, too. Gather some diced coconuts, sugar, fresh ginger and boil all your ingredients to create a thick syrup. Let set—and then voila! You have a taste of Jamaica.

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9)Grater Cake​

Grater cake, also known as "pink on top," is another simple Jamaican coconut sweet treat. This chewy candy-like dessert gets its name from being a grated coconut square. Although it's called a cake, this Jamaican dessert has no flour in it. It's a coconut treat compacted together and sometimes flavored with peppermint.
 

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10) Dukunnu
This inventive yet delicious dessert is made in a most unique way. Dukunnu, which is also called "tie-a-leaf" or "blue draws," is a cornmeal pudding made by boiling. The pudding ingredients are wrapped in banana leaf and boiled until done. Although it's traditionally a cornmeal pudding, you can replace the cornmeal with green bananas, cassava, sweet potato or yam.

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Mango Cheesecake​

A tropical twist on an international dessert, the mango cheesecake has a burst of mango fruit flavor in every bite. This is one of the Jamaican desserts on our list that's most likely to be had after dinner.
 

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I've never seen sweet potato pudding that color. This one doesn't even look like real food.

Yeah thats about right. Not jamaican but our sweet potatoes are white in the carribean, tastes a bit different too, not as sweet. I was freaked out when I came here and saw orange sweet potatoes.
 

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carrot cake is very popular, with five spice.

and it's banana frittas , pancakes are American

Where is the bread pudding? Black cakes?
 

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I've never seen rum cake that color. All the rum cake I've had was dark and left a warm feeling. It's sometimes referred to as black cake.
 

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The only one on the list I've had is rum cake. I'm not much of a drinker and the one I had must have been soaked multiple times in 150 proof cause you could smell it across the room.

Not on your list is Hummingbird cake. Many people think of it as a traditional southern layer cake. I love AA culinary history and when I was doing some research on something else I learned it's roots are in Jamaica.

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7) Bulla Cake​

Bulla cake or bulla is a Jamaican dessert made with molasses and spices. Made popular by its introduction into the school lunch system, bulla is a seasonal delight that adults pair with avocado or cheese.

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8) Coconut Drops​

Coconut drops are the perfect snack for the coconut lover with a sweet tooth. With only a few ingrents, they're easy to make, too. Gather some diced coconuts, sugar, fresh ginger and boil all your ingrents to create a thick syrup. Let set—and then voila! You have a taste of Jamaica.


Since when is bulla seasonal???

And, whose coconut drops are those????
 

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my mom used to make Dukunnu when I was little but we call them Conkies.
 
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Jackass Corn

Given the name by it's "tough and stubborn" nature, Jackass Corn is a biscuit made from ginger, nutmeg, coconut, and brown sugar.

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Festival

Although similar to a fried dumpling, Festivals are made with cornmeal, and sugar. They are fried golden, and typically long.
 

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I've never seen sweet potato pudding that color. This one doesn't even look like real food.
They tried to pretty it up when I’d happily take it as the food that was sometimes had for breakfast back when, and would demolish with a cup of Milo
 

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If I did only see pholourie, kurma or sugar cake ah was mashing up everything
 

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4) Gizzada​

Quite a few Jamaican desserts have one ingredient in common—and gizzada is no exception. Coconuts are an affordable way to make a great dessert. To make gizzadas, combine grated coconut with brown sugar and bake in a pinched crust.

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5) Tamarind Balls​

This famous childhood treat is a homemade take on a natural candy. The sour tamarind fruit is taken from its shell and separated, rounded into balls, then coated with sugar. The result is a sour-sweet natural candy every kid wants to try.

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Banana Pancake​

Try making a homemade Jamaican banana pancake! You'll need flour, sugar, salt and a few ripe bananas to make a batch of banana fritters. Despite its gray appearance, this dessert packs a punch in the flavor department—and it makes a great meal on its own.

Banana pancake? I would try that.
 

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Black cake and rum cake are not interchangeable lol I HATE when white people make these lists. The drops and potato pudding too lol what a disgrace....
 

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never heard of mango cheesecake but i haven't ate some blue draws in so long, i used to love them
 

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Wait, cus that mango cheesecake might be good.
 

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my mom used to make Dukunnu when I was little but we call them Conkies.
They’re called stewed conkies in Barbados, too.

That rum cake looks like the Tortuga Rum Cakes tourists buy. Black cake is what Jamaicans eat.

I can’t stand black cake. (Yes, it’s blasphemous. I know.) Got married 19 years ago and refused to have a black cake in addition to the regular wedding cake. I still can’t hear the end of it.

And nothing was better than when my mother made rice and peas with a real coconut and then made grater cakes with the leftovers. I would kill for some sweet potato pudding or a gizzada right now. Or some stewed june plums.

And where is the grapenut ice cream? (Or is that only my family?)
 

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In Haiti, dukunnu is about the same name (Doukounou)

The Tamarind and coconut drops look scrumptious
 

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My bananas always get too ripe before I get a chance to eat them, so perhaps I'll salvage them by doing this for breakfast. Fonts are saying it's not the Jamaican way though.
If you peel and freeze your overripe bananas, they’re excellent for baking with or making smoothies. When they’re on the verge of spoiling, peel them, cut them in half and store them in a ziploc bag in your freezer. You can also make banana ice cream and yummy smoothies if you have a magic bullet or blender.

Have not wasted a banana since using this trick. And they last for months.
 

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My bananas always get too ripe before I get a chance to eat them, so perhaps I'll salvage them by doing this for breakfast. Fonts are saying it's not the Jamaican way though.
It’s not! Neither is the sweet potato pudding and coconut drops do not look like that. Mango cheesecake isn’t traditionally Jamaican either. Where did the ancestors get cream cheese from?! This list is Jamaican inspired at best.
 

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People making threads about sweets when they are so bitter inside. The nerves.
 

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