Got to many fresh figs?
A friend of mine has a huge fig tree with hundreds of figs on it & they keep ripening daily. She gave me a big bag of them last Thursday & it was to much for DH & I to eat so I found this cookie recipe on Allrecipes.com
I read the reviews & changed it up some according to others suggestions. It's a really, really yummy recipe & even if you don't like figs, the cookies don't taste like figs. They are a "cake" like cookie...very soft & will stick together if you stack them before waiting for them to cool completely. Even then, stack them lightly. Since I couldn't use up all the figs, I went ahead & smashed them up & froze them in 1 cup bags for future cookies. I have a little Magic Bullet & I used that to smash them up in.
I think you could use this same recipe for a cake also. I think it would be awesome with some cream cheese/powdered sugar frosting.
Fresh Fig Cookies
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 beaten egg
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup fresh figs (smashed)
1/2 cup pecans or walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 deg.
Cream sugar & butter & vanilla. Add beaten egg.
Blend flour, soda, baking powder, & cinnamon with creamed mixture.
Fold in figs & nuts.
Drop by teaspoonfuls on greased (or parchment papered) cookie sheet.
Bake for 15 minutes.
Makes about 4 1/2 doz. small cookies.