Benjamins Grater Cake with Jamaican Colours

Ingredients

• 3 cup dried coconut
• 2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 1tsp Benjamins Vanilla Berry
• 1/8 teaspoon Benjamins almond flavouring
• 1 teaspoon Benjamins green food colouring
• 1 teaspoon Benjamins yellow food colouring
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Method

1. Peel off the brown portion of the coconut, wash, grate and set aside.

2. Combine grated coconut, granulated sugar and water in a pot and put to boil. Reduce to a medium flame, mix in the Benjamins Almond flavouring and the salt. Stir constantly until mixture thickens.

3. Remove a 1/2 of the mixture and separate it into two equal parts.

4. Add Benjamins green food colouring to one half and add Benjamins yellow food colouring to the second half.

5. Scrape remaining coconut mixture into a greased casserole dish and spread evenly.

6. Spread the green-coloured coconut evenly over one half of the white coconut mixture and do the same with the yellow-coloured coconut over the white mixture.

7. Set aside for at least 30 minutes or until sufficiently cooled.

8. Cut into squares and serve. Serves 10 persons