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How Caribbean Black Cake Utilized Local Ingredients To Make It A Staple Sweet - Tasting Table

Tonka beans work similarly to vanilla as a flavoring agent but they're described as a glorious palette. The beans paint a flavor simulation of sweet almond and vanilla scents mixed with a pear flavor essence. Tonka beans are essentially a dried, wrinkled seed texturally resembling a date with hints of honey and caramel. When warm, they can even have smoky floral tones. 

As for the fruits in a Caribbean black cake, common favorites for soaking include dried fruits such as cherries, currants, prunes, and spirit-friendly raisins, along with citrus peels from lemons or oranges. These fruits generally flourish in the summer, just in time for the months-long preparation of holiday, wedding, and special-occasion black cakes. Variations based on local ingredients can range widely per island from the addition of rose water in Jamaica or multiple fruit and almond extracts specific to Grenada. 

Black cakes hold such esteem in Caribbean countries that a recent novel by author Charmaine Wilkerson, titled "Black Cake," was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, the New York Times, and others. It spawned a Hulu series by the same name, with both the novel and the series telling a lifelong story of love, tragedy, family secrets, and outrageous lies, all through the symbolic mechanism of creating a black cake. The main character even buries her husband with a slice of the enigmatic cake and leaves one in the freezer for her children before she dies.   

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