What do you do with a bag of squashed figs? This was the dilemma that faced me last week when Sandra gave me the figs from the fruit man, but they ended up a little the worse for wear on the journey home. Thankfully, Google had the answer - I found this recipe for fig bread on About.com.
With 2 cups of mashed figs, this bread is incredibly moist, so I recommend keeping it in the fridge. If you only want one loaf, halve the recipe - it makes a lot of batter. I forgot the nuts, but believe these would have made a nice textural change to the pudding-like texture of the loaf.
I gave one of the loaves (the better looking one photographed for this post) to Sandra to share with whomever she chose. I laughed when I heard that she put candles on it as a birthday cake for our colleague Jeff, whose birthday was incidentally on the same day as when I brought the loaf in.
Verdict - if you like figs and moist, fruity cakes, then this is for you.
10 comments:
This bread sounds like just the ticket! Hubby loves moist breads and not the dry ones. It sounds lovely spread with some honey and ricotta! :)
You've been on quite a baking/cooking spree. Great looking loaf!
I love figs and fruity cakes. :) Great ad hoc birthday cake.
I was just looking at someone in the supermarket yesterday buying figs on special and wondering what they would do with them - I am sure I would love this cake - love dried figs in fruit cake so surely this would have some similar flavours and textures
I used dried figs in some of my bread, but this is a great idea.
This sounds good to me - maybe with some coffee for breakfast.
This looks and sounds so delicious! I love figs!
Ohh yum i can imagine how sweet and moist this must be :) Yummy ~ thanks for sharing!!!
When I was growing up in South Carolina we had two fig trees in our backyard, so summers were spent making preserves with my mom. I didn't realize how expensive figs were back then and wish I had those trees now because figs are so expensive in California. Your bread looks delicious.
Sounds and looks delicious...and it works as a birthday cake as well, what's not to love about all that in one recipe?!! Now I am really craving figs.
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