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"I'm not sure where the name comes from, but these little treats are a snap to make and look really good on a Christmas sweets platter. I got the recipe from my friend Melanie, who brought these to my Christmas baking exchange. Cook time is chill time."

Ingredients: chocolate chips, peanut butter chips...

"So simply delicious! If you like salt with your chocolate, use salted cashews. If you would prefer, use unsalted cashews. Adapted from the QVC website."

Ingredients: roasted cashews, semi-sweet chocolate chips...

"This is a traditional Trinidadian sweet that used to be popular with children. It's still available from select stores but it's now more of a specialty item. Haven't made this in years but now that I have a child it's time to dust off this recipe."

Ingredients: coconut, dried orange peel...

"Another sugar cake recipe that uses larger pieces (chips) of coconut. My favourite sugar cake."

Ingredients: coconut, cream of tartar...

"A yummy recipe from the Caribbean island of Aruba. Traditionally cocada is served on broken bits of the coconut shell. I've included this in the southern category too, since coconut is grown and used in Florida!"

Ingredients: coconut, water, limes...

"A coconut sugar candy. For the serious sweet tooth."

Ingredients: cream of tartar, food coloring...

"Entered for safe-keeping for ZWT5. From ElBoricua.com, Puerto Rican cooking site."

Ingredients: confectioners' sugar, honey...

"Here is a lower-fat kugel recipe that takes this rather boring traditional dish to an entirely new level (and into the new millennium!) I've been told they have a cheesecake-esque quality to them. Don't snub the Chocolate ones they are a hit every time! Let go of Jewish guilt & Be creative... think outside the Kugel box!!"

Ingredients: coconut flavoring, sliced almonds...

"Found on the internet. I LOVE coconut!!!
Prep and cook time does not include the hardening time."

Ingredients: cinnamon, sugar...

"This recipe comes from a friend of mine from Trinidad. She serves these candies every Christmas."

Ingredients: lime juice, lime zest...

"Entered for safe-keeping for ZWT5. From ElBoricua.com, a Puerto Rican food site."

Ingredients: coconut, water, brown sugar...

"Dark cane sugar is a new item here, got this recipe out of a weekly magazine and have made it this morning to test before I make it for Christmas gifts, sweet, but great flavour."

Ingredients: condensed milk, dark cane sugar...

"Another find from CaribSeek recipes...posting here for ZWT5.by Dave DeWitt and Mary Jane Wilan

In the early part of the twentieth century, sweet vendors would pound the streets of towns and villages in T&T, selling candies by means of a spinning wheel. For a penny, a customer spun the wheel and received the number candies indicated when..."

Ingredients: coconut, dried orange peel...