What is "cut cake"

n. A Jamaican dessert made with sliced coconut, ginger and brown sugar.

Cut cake, also maren candy , maren , or qiēgāo, is a confectionery made with candied fruit, corn syrup, flour and nuts. It is a traditional snack of the Uyghur ethnic group in Xinjiang Hotan. Cut cake is made in large blocks, and sold by cutting slices from the block, hence the name "cut cake".

Cut cake bought from Uyghur pedlars has developed a bad reputation because of the practice of cutting slices much larger than requested, followed by insistence on purchase of the entire piece.

In December 2012, the "Sky-high Price Cut Cake Incident" in Yueyang resulted from a local government post on Sina Weibo, describing the government's response to a public brawl involving cut cake pedlars and locals.