Grater cake is a dessert of grated coconut in a fondant of sugar in Jamaican cuisine.Frederic Gomes Cassidy, Robert Brock Le Page 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.
See also Toto (dessert) Gizzada List of Jamaican dishes
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