grater cake

{{short description|Coconut dessert}}

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| country = Jamaica

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| type = Dessert

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| main_ingredient = Coconut, sugar fondant

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Grater cake is a dessert of grated coconut in a fondant of sugar in Jamaican cuisine.Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page [https://books.google.com/books?id=_lmFzFgsTZYC&dq=parched+corn+balls+Jamaica&pg=PA72 Dictionary of Jamaican English] page 72 While refined, or white sugar, is now often used, when "wet" or "new" brown sugar was used, it was known as grater brute.