Fig Spice Cake
Recipe: #24895
September 18, 2016
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Tube/Bundt, Eggs, Figs, Oven Bake, High Fiber Vegetarian, Spices, Kosher Dairy, more
"This comes from the Joy of Cooking. Posted for "You Want What?! tag game. Prep time is an estimate."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (121.1 g)
- Calories 508.3
- Total Fat - 36.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 6.9 g
- Cholesterol - 56.2 mg
- Sodium - 400.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 36.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4.2 g
- Sugars - 18.8 g
- Protein - 15.2 g
- Calcium - 87.6 mg
- Iron - 2.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 3.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Have all ingredients about 75F.
Step 2
Stew figs in water, cool, drain & reserve 1/2 cup juice.
Step 3
Cut figs into 1/4" cubes.
Step 4
Combine fig juice and buttermilk or yogurt; set aside.
Step 5
Preheat oven to 350F.
Step 6
Sift before measuring: 1 1/2 cups cake flour
Step 7
Resift with baking powder, salt, cinnamon, cloves and baking soda; set aside
Step 8
Cream butter until soft.
Step 9
Add the sugar gradually.
Step 10
Cream until very light.
Step 11
Beat in 1 egg at a time.
Step 12
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture in about 3 parts, alternating the thirds of the milk and fig juice.
Step 13
Stir the batter after each addition until smooth.
Step 14
Add the figs with vanilla and nuts or raisins
Step 15
Bake in a greased 9" tube pan for about 50 minutes.
Step 16
When cool, spread with Coffee or Mocha icing or frosting of your choice.
Tips
- 9" Tube pan
- Have all ingredients about 75F.