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Recipe: Fresh Fig Cake

Ingredients

1/2 cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Vanilla
1/2 teaspoon Salt
2 Eggs
2 teaspoons Sour Cream
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
2 cups Flour
1 cup Fresh Figs (Best if using overripe Black Mission or Kadota Figs)

In a bowl combine butter and sugar, salt and vanilla until creamed. Add eggs and beat well.  Add sour cream soda, baking powder.  Slowly sift in flour until all ingredients are combined.  Figs should be pealed of all stem and outside skin and mashed together, then added to batter and well mixed. Pour into 9x13 glass pan sprayed with all purpose cooking spray.  Bake for 45 minutes or until knife comes out clean.

Frost with Confectioner’s sugar icing.

Top with fresh fig slice and serve.

Enjoy!

NOTICE: This item is available for Pre-order only. You might not receive your order until July.

We escape the early summer heat by wandering under the massive fig tree in the backyard, reaching for the bursting purple figs hanging close to our fingertips…

Sweet, sticky juices run everywhere. Laughing, we pick as many as we can for the delicious fig jam I’m going to make later.  Try our luscious early summer figs.  Perfect with a cool summer salad, or perhaps try as a delightful finish to your ideal luncheon.

Now is the time to get them from this third-generation orchard owned by a Simone family member who brought figs to America in the 1920s.

Contents

• 2 pints Kadota Figs (4 pints if 8 pint combo is selected)
• 2 pints Black Mission Figs (4 pints if 8 pint combo is selected)

Kadota Figs

This variety of a fig is loved around the world.  It is a small round fig with a green/yellow skin and a honey sweet center. Kadotas are available at the end of the fig season, but are worth the wait.  The Kadota fig is truly nature’s candy.

Black Mission Figs

First Crop (July) is a short season lasting about two weeks.  Figs are teardrop in shape with thin black skin and a reddish flesh. Sweeter than honey these larger figs are the cream of the crop.  Second crop is more abundant, but smaller and round in shape (August - mid October).  Blacks are good shipping figs that ripen with time are available sometimes through November depending on weather conditions.