16 Best Puddings, Pies and Sweet Bakes: Caribbean Comfort for the Holiday Season

Brithany NeathNovember 1, 2026

Blessings, family! The holiday season is coming and every table needs something sweet at the end. As Proverbs 16:24 says, “Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the bones.” (NKJV)

So here are 16 of our best puddings, pies, tarts and sweet bakes in one place, from sticky plantain pudding and cornmeal pudding to rum butter cornbread, banana breads and coconut cookies. Every photo is from our own kitchen. Pick one to bake this week and let YAH bless the table.

Puddings, Pies and Tarts

1. Sticky Plantain Pudding

Moist, spiced plantain pudding drenched in a buttery rum caramel sauce, the tropical answer to sticky toffee pudding.

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2. How to make Jamaican Cornmeal Pudding

A dense, moist Jamaican classic made with cornmeal, flour and sugar, a pudding found in nearly every island household.

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3. The BEST Oreo Sweet Potato Pie Recipe

Creamy southern sweet potato pie with an Oreo twist, made for the holiday table.

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4. Jamaican Plantain Tart with Cream Cheese

Mashed ripe plantain on a crust with creamy cream cheese on top, baked until warm and gooey.

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5. Easily The Best Cinnamon Apple Turnover Recipe Ever

Flaky pastry filled with warm cinnamon apples, a baking favorite that surprised Kesh during the pandemic.

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6. Easily The BEST Pineapple Upside Down Cheesecake Recipe

A creamy cheesecake layer between soft pineapple cake with caramelized pineapple rings and cherries.

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Sweet Breads and Bakes

7. Rum Butter Cornbread

Sweet, moist, buttery cornbread finished with an Appleton rum butter glaze.

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8. Callaloo Cheese Danish™

Callaloo in a dessert? Yes. A flaky, creamy cheese danish with a Jerk Tavern twist.

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9. Jamaican Callaloo Plantain Bread

Ripe plantains and finely chopped callaloo baked into a soft, moist quick bread.

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10. Callaloo Banana Bread™

Soft, moist banana bread with callaloo baked right in, a loaf nobody expects and everybody asks for.

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11. Cream Cheese Banana Bread

The very first thing Brit ever baked for Kesh. Rich, tender banana bread with cream cheese.

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12. Vegan Rum Raisin Banana Bread

Caramelized banana flavor, spiced rum soaked raisins and warm Caribbean spices, 100% plant based.

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Cookies and Little Sweets

13. Jamaican Sugar Bun

Soft, lightly sweet Jamaican pastry with a golden crust and a sprinkle of sugar on top, perfect for breakfast or a snack.

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14. Jamaican Coconut Macaroons

Soft, chewy coconut cookies with warm cinnamon and a bright cherry on top.

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15. How To Make Jamaican Coconut Drops

Fresh coconut cooked down with ginger, sugar and nutmeg into soft, gummy sweet drops.

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16. Carmel Snickerdoodle Cookies

Soft and chewy cinnamon sugar cookies with an ooey gooey caramel surprise in the middle.

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A Word of Wisdom

Jesus Christ is all we need in this life. As He said, He is the tree and we are the branches. If a branch is broken off the tree, it no longer lives but starts to die and dry out. An what do we do with dead branches? We burn them for fire. This is what will happen to anyone that is not attached to Jesus. The end of that persons fate is hell fire. But if we abide in Him, or stay attached to Jesus, we will have eternal life. He lives forever, He has already been immortalized, and He promises this to us believers.

So how do we abide in Him? By keeping His words in us. He is the Word of God that became flesh. All the words that He spoke come from our Father in heaven Yah. Jesus is Yah in the flesh. God is a Spirit. So in order for us to know Him, He came as a human being through Jesus, and called Him His only Son. Jesus is in Yah and Yah is in Him. All His words bring life. For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of Yah.

Every single word that Jesus spoke came from Yah. If we abide in what Jesus told us, we shall never die, but we will all live. Love Him and keep His commandments. Keep His sayings. Hold on to His words of life. His parables, everything we read in the gospels, keep them in your memory, to the point where you start to speak just like Him. An as He said, out of your belly shall flow living waters. Why? Because the words you will start to speak will be His words of life, for us to share to others as well.

Abide in Jesus, He will manifest Himself to you and bless you with the Holy Spirit, that seals us with His promises and gives us the power to overcome death unto eternal life.

Brithany Neath

Brithany Neath is the cook, recipe developer and voice behind Jerk Tavern, the Jamaican and Caribbean food blog she runs with her husband Rackesh from their Florida kitchen. Over five years they have published more than 300 original recipes — jerk chicken, oxtail, curry goat, rice and peas, homemade sauces from scratch and Caribbean fusion dishes — every one cooked, photographed and written by the two of them. Their work has been featured in the Jamaican Gleaner and Jamaican Eats Magazine, and Brithany is a Pinterest Golden Recipe winner with Food52.