Saintoise Tourment d’Amour

This cake’s origins go to Les Saintes, a small archipelago off the coast of Guadeloupe, though it also has French roots. The original cake is made with a puree of sweet coconut, short crust pastry, and a spongy meringue. Modern tourments d’amour are jam-filled sponge cake tarts. The jams are usually passion fruit, banana, guava, coconut, or chocolate. For this recipe, I used a method that has been floating around the vegan world for a few years; I did not invent the concept, but I ha