🇹🇻 Tuvaluan Cuisine

Coconut Candy Tuvalu

Caramelized Coconut Sweets

Prep Time 5 min
Servings 8
Difficulty Easy
Calories 170 kcal

Grated coconut cooked with sugar until golden and chewy. A beloved island sweet.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Dissolve sugar in water.
  2. 2 Cook to golden caramel.
  3. 3 Add coconut, stir constantly.
  4. 4 Cook 10 minutes.
  5. 5 Add vanilla, salt, cinnamon, butter.
  6. 6 Drop onto parchment, cool.

Did You Know?

Coconut candy is the most common sweet on Tuvalu, where imported candy is expensive.