Agbozume Specialty · Hard Coconut-Cassava Biscuit
Ayigbe Biscuit
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It traces to a single named inventor — Yonunawo Kwami Edze of Agbozume, who learned baking in Ivory Coast and brought the recipe home around 1907, giving it one of the few documented origin stories among Ghanaian street snacks.
A very hard, clay-oven-baked biscuit made from cassava and coconut, gluten-free and lightly scented, traditionally sold alongside chunks of hard coconut to eat together.
Why it's made this way: Born in Agbozume in the Volta Region roughly a century ago, it remains a distinctly local snack rarely found outside Ewe communities, sold from small tables and baskets by roadside vendors.
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