🍬dessert
Sweet Potato Pudding
“Granny's Heavy Cake”
If you want to understand a Jamaican grandmother's love, eat her Sweet Potato Pudding. This is not a light, airy, delicate dessert — it is dense, dark, rich, and heavy enough that a single slice could anchor a fishing boat. That heaviness is the point. It is the weight of care, of patience, of stand...
10 ingredients
Provision ground tradition (1700s through present)
Jamaican Sweet Potato Pudding is intentionally dense — unlike Western puddings designed to be light. The high starch content of the raw grated sweet potato, combined with coconut fat, creates a texture closer to a steamed confection than a cake. A properly made pudding can weigh over 5 pounds from a single pan.
YARD KITCHEN
Old Time Jamaican Recipes