Island SPACE Caribbean Museum Hosts Second Rum and Caribbean Black Cake Festival for Local Residents

More than 300 delighted cake connoisseurs descended on Island SPACE Caribbean Museum for the second annual Rum Cake and Caribbean Black Cake Fest on Sunday, November 4th. Attendees were treated to a variety of tasty desserts from bakers representing nine Caribbean countries, most of whom sold out of their delicious products.

Back for the second time, Food Network competition winner and Virgin Islander Jamal Lake of Ganache Bakery sampled and sold his beautifully packaged rum cakes in three varieties, including original (covered in crushed nuts), chocolate Baileys (topped with chocolate shavings and chocolate drizzle) and coconut (with drizzled icing and coconut shavings). He introduced his black cake recipe, moist enough to qualify as a pudding, to the audience for the first time.

Booze in Bundts, representing the United Kingdom as a Caribbean diaspora in their premiere appearance, presented seven delectable and unexpected varieties of mini rum cakes such as peanut butter whiskey, Kentucky bourbon chocolate and chocolate cherry.

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Barbadian baker Ethel Jayne’s American Caribbean Fusion, a two year veteran of the festival,