osewme

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.

sash

Sounds yummy, but don't have a fig tree. Price of figs here is pricey.

osewme

My friend said as long as her tree keeps producing we can have as many as we want. I have a Food Saver system that sucks the air out of bags for you to freeze foods. Since the figs are so juicy after I smash them up I just freeze the one cup amounts in a small plastic container first. After they are frozen, I take them out of the plastic container & run the frozen figs through the Food Saver & they will store for years like that.

ekuw

That does sound yummy. I love fig newtons, so I would definitely be willing to try another kind of fig cookie :-)

nativetexan

oh that does sound good. we used to have a dog when I was young and he loved figs!

DACO48

My husbands Aunt in California had a fig tree in her yard. Oh how I loved those figs. No fig trees where we live, on the Western slope maybe.

Champagnolle

My figs aren't ripe yet. My favorite way to keep them on hand until winter is to pickle them. I got the recipe from the Ball Canning book. They are a lot like pickled peaches. I've made them with Splenda sometimes and they are still good.

Doggramma

I don't have any recipes but you are so lucky! I love fresh figs and we rarely have them around here

Jane Quilter

I make jelly out of mine, and add all manner of berries to the recipie to change it up. Very exotic flavor!

Moira in N.E. England

What a wonderful situation to be in - would happy to take some off your hands!