Bulla

Bulla cake from a Los Angeles bakery

Bulla cake, sometimes referred to as bulla bread, is a rich, dark, and smokey flavored Jamaican pastry made with molasses^] and spiced with ginger and nutmeg. Bulla are small loaves that are flat and round. They are inexpensive and easy to make using molasses, flour and baking soda. Bulla is traditionally a popular treat for schoolchildren.

Bulla is "a dense, semi-sweet cake, usually eaten with cheese, butter or avocado (known as pear in Jamaica)."Specialty grocery stores in the U.S. that carry Caribbean foods sell bulla cakes along with other popular Jamaican foods such as hard dough bread, bammy, soursop, coco bread, sometimes hard to come by fruit such as ackee, and beverages like Allen's fruit drinks, Chubby fruit beverages and ginger beer.
A lighter hued bulla was referred to as "mess around."  Bulla cakes are served at the Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill. Chinese Jamaican entrepreneur Patrick Cha-Fong opened a store catering to Jamaican crewmen in South Florida before becoming a supplier of "tropical foods" including bulla bread to Wal-Mart.  A traditional food of Jamaica, the bulla cake has been used as an emblem and symbol related to development on the island nation. Former solicitor general of Jamaica, Kenneth Rattray, was a fan of bulla. A half kilogramme of marijuana was found embedded in bulla cakes by police at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica after inspecting an 80 year old Jamaican woman's bags.