I never knew anyone with a fig tree before moving to Texas. I seriously had never had figs unless you count Fig Newtons, and I am really not sure that counts! Figs were common to the area we moved, the church we served had fig trees on their grounds.

A sweet lady from church gave me a mess of figs and a recipe for fig cake. You know my love for handwritten recipes , but I don't have the lady's name on the card and for the life of me I can't remember. Sad face. I made the cake while my dad was visiting and he said it was one of the best cakes he ever had.

When we moved here another sweet lady in our church, Betty, don't you just love sweet ladies, gave us a fig tree. While our tree just has a handful of figs that will be harvested this year, they aren't ready. Mrs. Betty brought us some figs last week. That meant is was time to dig out the fig cake recipe, I wanted to share it with you.

Fig Cake

1 Cup buttermilk

1 Cup Oil

3 Eggs

1 tsp vanilla

1 1/2 Cups Sugar

2 Cups AP Flour

1 tsp soda

1 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp allspice

2 Cups fresh figs cut up

Sift together all dry ingredients and set aside. Mix first four ingredients well in mixer bowl. Add dry sifted ingredients and mix well. Add the figs and mix again. Pour in prepared oblong pan and bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour (or slightly longer)

This cake is very dense and moist. I added a buttermilk glaze, but I believe next time I will just top each piece with whipped cream and a dash of cinnamon.

Disclaimer, I halved this recipe and baked in a loaf pan because I just had one cup of figs, I used two whole eggs. Although the cake still tasted good, I would not do this again. If you have access to fresh figs you should definitely give it a try, my family loves it and Mr. Wonderful is not even a fan of Fig Newtons!

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