Nutmeg Syrup Cake — Print Recipe

A moist, dense spice cake soaked in a warm nutmeg and cinnamon syrup, showcasing Grenada's most famous export in a deeply aromatic dessert.

Ingredients

2 cups flour
1 cup brown sugar
3 eggs
120g butter, melted
1 cup milk
2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
For syrup: 1 cup sugar
For syrup: 1 cup water
For syrup: 1 tsp grated nutmeg
For syrup: 1 cinnamon stick

Instructions

1 Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius. Grease and flour a nine-inch round cake tin.
2 Whisk flour, baking powder, nutmeg, and cinnamon together in a large bowl.
3 In another bowl, beat eggs with brown sugar until fluffy. Add melted butter, milk, and vanilla.
4 Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients until just combined. Pour into prepared tin.
5 Bake thirty-five to forty minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
6 While cake bakes, make syrup by boiling sugar, water, nutmeg, and cinnamon stick until slightly thickened. Pierce hot cake all over with a skewer and pour warm syrup over it.

Did You Know?

Grenada produces roughly forty percent of the world's nutmeg supply, earning it the nickname Isle of Spice and featuring a nutmeg on its national flag.