I came back from a holiday in the Bahamas with a taste for Johnny cake (thanks to Mom's Bakery on Little Exuma!). Wanting to recreate it at home, I googled recipes to find that Johnny cakes come in many shapes and sizes. Bahamian Johnny cake is almost like a dense bread loaf baked in an oven, sometimes made with coconut milk. Jamaican Johnny cakes are deep fried coconut dumplings and in the southern USA they seem to be a cornmeal pancake.

I wanted to try all of these, and to be honest, I'm lazy. So I decided to make a dough that contained coconut and cornmeal that could be baked (on the left in the picture) or fried (on the right). I didn't try deep-frying them as dumplings, but I don't see why this wouldn't work.