Meaning
A chewy coconut sweet made by boiling grated coconut with sugar (often browned) and ginger until it thickens, then spreading it and cutting it into squares once set — hence the name. Cut cake, sometimes dark with wet-sugar and spiced with ginger, is a favourite old-time Jamaican confection sold on the sweetie tray, sticky and rich and instantly recognisable.
Examples
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Gimme two cut cake, di dark one.
Give me two cut cakes, the dark ones.
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Di cut cake sweet an chewy.
The cut cake is sweet and chewy.
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Coconut an brown sugar mek di cut cake.
Coconut and brown sugar make the cut cake.
Origin
From 'cut' (cut into squares) + 'cake'; a coconut-and-sugar sweet. See [[wangla]], [[pinda-cake]].
How it’s used
A chewy coconut-and-sugar sweet cut into squares. See [[wangla]], [[busta]].