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(Non-Traditional) Bojo Cake from Suriname

Bojo is a flourless cake made, traditionally, from grated coconut and cassava. Cassava is a starchy root plant also known as yucca. It's also, traditionally, made with rum-soaked rasins. I completely failed on multiple counts in bringing the ingredients for this dessert. I forgot the cassava in my freezer at home; so we used potatoes instead. And I intended to just use raisins - without the rum - but I left those at home, too. So, we did without raisins, too. It was dense and delicious...but is not your traditional Bojo. Ingredients 1/2 pound new red potatoes, boiled, cooled, and grated 2 C grated coconut (we used dried) 1/3 C organic granulated sugar 2 eggs 1/4 C coconut milk 1 T organic pure vanilla extract 2 t organic almond extract 4 T butter, melted 1 t salt Procedure Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Butter a 9-inch round cake pan and line bottom of pan with parchment paper. Stir the coconut and grated potatoe together with t...