Jamaican Pudding Recipe List (That Will Make You Salivate)
Did you know that there are SEVERAL different kinds of Jamaican pudding recipes? Some of the more popular ones are Jamaican sweet potato pudding and Jamaican bread pudding. However, there are other ones that are just as tasty such as Jamaican cassava pudding and Jamaican cornmeal pudding. If you haven’t tried any of these before, I HIGHLY recommend you consider trying at least one Jamaican pudding recipe! Please continue reading to find out more about these different delicious pudding options for dessert.
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What Is Jamaican Pudding?
As mentioned previously, there are many different kinds of Jamaican pudding recipes out there. These are some of the most popular:
- Sweet potato pudding
- Bread pudding
- Cornmeal pudding
- Cassava pudding
Ingredients for Jamaican Pudding
Ok, so what makes these Jamaican pudding recipes so “Jamaican”? Well, a lot of the spices and ingredients that are used in these recipes are VERY common in Jamaican cuisine. Here is a list of some common Jamaican pudding ingredients:
- Pimento (allspice)
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Brown sugar
- Coconut milk
- Cornmeal
Ingredients for Jamaican Bread Pudding
So, Jamaican bread pudding is a sweet baked dessert using day-old bread (basically bread that is no longer fresh), milk, sugar, eggs, and different spices.
However, before we begin looking at a Jamaican bread pudding recipe, let’s first go over the most common ingredients in Jamaican bread pudding recipes:
- Old bread
- Butter
- Rum
- Raisins
- Regular milk
- Eggs
- Sugar
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Vanilla
Jamaican Bread Pudding Recipe #1
This recipe, in the link above, only takes about 15 minutes of preparation and 1 hour of baking time.
What makes this recipe super enticing is that you will be soaking the raisins in rum (for at least ½ hour) before adding them to your baked bread pudding dessert recipe.
AND, you’ll be topping it off with some chopped maraschino cherries.
Goodness, gracious! Sounds soooo delicious, am I right?
Bread Pudding Cake Recipe #2
Ok, so this is possibly the EASIEST Jamaican bread pudding cake recipe I found!
The recipe is by YouTuber Cook Like a Jamaican and at the time of this writing the video has 56,674 views and 926 “likes”.
These are the ingredients you’ll need:
- 10 slices of crusty Italian bread (any white bread would work)
- 3 cups of milk
- 1 cup of margarine or butter
- 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
- ½ teaspoons of allspice
- ½ teaspoon of nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon of salt
- ½ cup of raisins
- ¾ cup of white sugar (brown sugar is OK)
- 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon of rum
- 6 eggs
Take a look at this easy Jamaican bread pudding recipe below:
Ingredients for Jamaican Cassava Pudding
In case some of you may not be familiar with Jamaican cassava pudding, other names for it are cassava pone, cassava cake, or yuca cake.
(Like me, some of you may be more familiar with the term yuca for cassava).
It’s a very popular Jamaican dessert that you make with grated cassava, coconut milk, and spices.
Now for the most common ingredients in Jamaican cassava pudding recipes:
- Cassava
- Coconut milk
- Vanilla extract
- Almond extract
- All-purpose flour
- Coconut flakes
- Sugar
- Baking powder
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Salt
A Little About Cinnamon
It’s great that many of these Jamaican pudding cake recipes use cinnamon because it’s just one thing that is really good for you!
So, although these Jamaican desserts contain a lot of sugar, maybe we can use the fact that they use cinnamon as a good reason to consume? Maybe? Ok, maybe not, haha.
Jamaican Cassava Pone Recipe #1
So, our first Jamaican cassava pone recipe, or cassava pudding recipe, is by Healthier Steps.
Keep in mind that although this is a vegan Jamaican cassava pudding recipe, you can definitely make it non-vegan by using regular all-purpose flour and by adding butter, too.
Also, this recipe developer uses a blender, but you can definitely use a box grater to grate your cassava root (this is the traditional way) if you don’t have a blender or food processor available (as stated on the page).
Also, to save some time, the recipe developer states that you can make the batter a day ahead.
(I love tips like these).
Jamaican Yuca Pudding Cake Recipe #2
This is an easy Jamaican cassava pudding recipe by YouTuber How to cook CHANNEL.
FYI, these are the ingredients you’ll need to make this recipe:
- 1 ½ lb of cassava
- 1 ½ cup of brown sugar
- ½ cup of coconut flakes
- 1 can of coconut milk
- 1 cup of water
- ½ cup of cornmeal
- ½ cup of all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder
- ½ teaspoon of nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of almond extract
- 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
Here is the recipe for you:
Looks sooo mouthwatering, am I right?
Ingredients for Jamaican Cornmeal Pudding
Now, take a look at the list below for the most common ingredients for Jamaican cornmeal pudding:
- Cornmeal (fine)
- Salt
- All-purpose flour
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Coconut milk
- Vanilla extract
- Butter
- Brown or white sugar
Cornmeal Pudding Recipe #1
Ok, so here is your first recipe for Jamaican cornmeal pudding by A Younique Journey.
(Before I forget to state this, let me tell you that this is the recipe I used for the pictures I have included in this post. The cornmeal I used was Quacker’s Yellow Corn Meal and it worked out PERFECTLY.)
(Side note: I’ve made more than one of her Jamaican recipes on her website and everything I’ve made has been FANTASTIC including the Jamaican plantain porridge recipe which I talk about in my Breakfast Recipes Using Plantains page).
This recipe will give you about 14 servings and it takes a total of only 15 minutes to prepare (but about 1 hour 20 minutes of baking time).
At the time of this writing, this recipe has 4.5/5 stars out of a total of 76 reviews and it’s been shared 6,100 times!
INCREDIBLE, right?!
Go ahead and at least take a look at the pictures on the page in the recipe link above.
What do you think of this VERY popular Jamaican pudding dessert? Does it make you want to salivate? I’ve been salivating so much looking at the pictures, haha.
Recipe for Cornmeal Pudding From Jamaica #2
Now, here is your second Jamaican cornmeal pudding cake recipe by the YouTube channel LOVING JA FOOD.
The good thing about this recipe is that it is also SO EASY to make!
(By the way, I’m being SO SERIOUS when I say I was licking my lips SO MUCH throughout this video. The Jamaican cornmeal pudding in this recipe looks SOOOO delicious!!)
Take a look at the video below to see what I mean (don’t forget to check out the ingredients list toward the end of the video):
Ingredients for Jamaican Sweet Potato Pudding Cake
Here are the most common ingredients for Jamaican sweet potato pudding:
- Jamaican sweet potato (purple skin)
- Coconut milk
- Vanilla extract
- Allspice
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Salt
- Sugar
- Rum
- All-purpose flour
- Cornmeal (fine)
- Butter
Sweet Potato Pudding Recipe From Jamaica #1
Now, this Jamaican sweet potato pudding recipe requires a little more work compared to the other Jamaican pudding recipes, but don’t let that steer you away from trying it!
Take this recipe by Roxy Chow Down, for example.
As of the date of this writing, this recipe has 5/5 star ratings from 12 reviews. That’s definitely saying something!
Oh, and you HAVE to check out the comments toward the bottom of the recipe page, too. People literally LOVE this recipe!
Plus, what a lot of people like is that you can use a blender to grind down your sweet potatoes. However, you can grate them if you wish.
Sweet Potato Pudding from Jamaica #2
Ok, so here is your second sweet potato pudding from Jamaica.
Check out this YouTube video by Morris Time Cooking.
(I must say… he does an EXCELLENT job of explaining how he makes the recipe and the importance of each of the steps.)
What are your thoughts on this sweet potato pone recipe?
What To Serve With Jamaican Pudding
- Milo chocolate malt beverage
- Milk
- Tea
- Ice cream
- Rum
- Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
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Final Thoughts
And that’s a wrap! I hope you seriously consider making at least one of these Jamaican pudding recipes. Did any of them stand out to you? Which ones? If so, please let me know in the comments below!
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