Guava Duff
The guava, is one of only a handful of exceptional native natural products to the Bahamas going before the appearance of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Very much edible from its yellow skin to its unique delicate pink or white focus, even the guava’s seeds are used in certain recipes, frequently adding surface to the jams and baked goods they upgrade.
This conventional Bahamian recipe consolidates guava fruit, a sponge like dough, sweet batter and an extraordinary rum or liquor butter sauce to shower on top.
Guava duff is an all-around cherished treat and by far the most popular dessert on this list. This flavorful pastry is made with fresh guavas after the seeds have been painstakingly removed. The guava is stewed with cinnamon, sugar, and allspice and utilized as a filling to a moved mixture.
Processed in a pillow case traditionally, now normally enveloped by foil and parchment paper, the roll is boiled for a few hours until it has a moist and light consistency. Once done, the roll is finished off with dollops of a velvety brandy butter sauce infused with guava.
This pastry burst with rich guava flavor in every bite.
Coconut Tart
Strangely, coconuts are not native to The Bahamas-they were brought to the archipelago quite a while back through marine flows and nautical transients from South America, the continent this fruit originated from. Once here, coconuts flourished in our sandy soil and muggy environment, faring well in hurricane conditions and storm surges, as a result of their high resilience of salt water and light trunks. Thus, coconuts easily grow on essentially every island and cay here in The Bahamas. They are also incorporated in the landscape all over the islands.
The allure of the Coconut Tart is its simplicity. It is definitely less work to get ready than a customary pie since it utilizes just essential fixings yet brings about a powerful dessert. It’s not hard to imagine why this specialty immediately turned into its very own remarkable treat here in The Bahamas.
Bahamian Coconut tart is exceptional, yet not normal for customary tarts. Our Coconut Tart doesn’t utilize a flaky hull base, yet rather looks like an extremely sticky (nearly bread like) cake covered with a thick layer of natural product filling.
This cake is made with flour, shortening, margarine, eggs, milk, vanilla, and baking powder, improved just softly with sugar. The organic product filling contains fresh, mixed coconut alongside basic syrup and nutmeg to feature the saccharine nutty and hearty taste of the natural coconut. Thick and stout, the generous filling is slathered on top of the sweet mixture, the two surfaces impeccably supplementing one another and afterward heated until you have a brilliant earthy colored outside and delectable gooey focus.
Variations of Coconut Tart Include: Pineapple Tart, Watermelon Rind Tart, Tamarind Tart, and Guava Tart.
Potato Bread
This local cake consolidates native sweet potatoes with flour and gritty flavors to frame a bread that is heavenly.
Grated sweet potatoes and sugar are joined with the profound flavors of allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Variations of this bread include, shredded coconut and raisins added to the batter. Once baked to a brilliant brown, indulge in the bold flavors of sweet potatoes in every bite. It is perfect with tea or espresso and an ideal accompaniment to any stew or soup.
Cassava Bread
Cassava is a staple food in the Bahamas, locally grown and prepared in a variety of ways. Cassava is a root vegetable or tuber with a sort of nutty flavor. This root is free of nuts, gluten, or grain and can be dried and powdered.
Cassava bread is said to have started with the main pilgrims of the Bahama Islands. This sweet has endured for an extremely long period and is a favorite of numerous Bahamians. It is made like its counterpart potato bread, with grated cassava being utilized instead. The warm and delicate cut of this bread foretells the culinary delight your tastebuds will experience. Enjoy this bread with tea, coffee, or hot cocoa.
Rum Cake
A rich and decadent sweet of the Bahama Islands is rum cake. With a background marked by piracy, smuggling, and rum-running on the shores, it’s just fitting that one of our customary sweets honors that.
Chopped pecans or walnuts are added to a Bundt dish. The batter that follows gets the greater part of its flavor from vanilla and dark rum (which is usually local coconut rum), and pecans or walnuts can be added for additional texture. When heated and cooled, little openings are stuck into the cake in anticipation of the dark rum frosting. A cut of this rum cake is the extravagance you didn’t realize you wanted. A “shot” to the tastebuds if you will.
Johnny Cake
Although not considered a dessert this cake cannot be omitted from this list. This Bahamian favorite is not difficult to make, utilizing basic fixings you probably as of now have in your refrigerator and storeroom. And keeping in mind that “cake” evokes dreams of a rich treat, Johnny Cake is more likened to bread – figure cornbread or another thick portion you could eat as a side dish.
It’s believed that Johnny Cake probably began with local occupants of North America and found its direction to The Bahamas during the time of the mid-Atlantic slave exchange the southern US. It was previously known as “journey cake” since it voyaged above and beyond significant distances and could be handily made out and about. Today, varieties of Johnny Cake are eaten all through the US, Central, and South America, and each place has its own twist on the recipe. In certain districts, “johnny cakes” are little, level frying pan cakes. In The Bahamas, Johnny Cake is baked.
Johnny Cake is delicious warm with butter or jam as a morning meal treat or a snack or enjoy it as a side dish with stew or soups.
Benny Cake
This treat may be termed as “cake”, but it’s actually a candy brittle. Made with sesame seeds, sugar, salt, and water cooked to a thick sticky consistency, then cooled, these cakes are a delightfully parched sugary treat.
Peanut Cake/Coconut Cake
Similar to Benny Cake are Peanut and Coconut Cake. Made with fresh peanuts or fresh coconut, they are prepared in the same manner as Benny Cake. These candy cakes are a great treat to take home from your vacation for friends and family to enjoy.
