Halloween candy is a bucketful of chocolate fun but all those candy bars can equal cocoa overload. Figs are a welcome break from all that packaged snack...they're nature's delicious answer to candy! Figs are just as sweet as any confection but a whole lot healthier...full of calcium and potassium and fiber. They are available fresh from late Spring through Fall and dried all year round. They're snackable straight up, or you can add them to all sorts of things for a sweet chewy zing! :)
These recipes use dried figs so you can enjoy them in any season...yay!
from Maggie at The Vegan Cookbook Aficionado
from Isa Chandra at Post Punk Kitchen
from Emily at This Rawsome Vegan Life
from Isa Chandra at Post Punk Kitchen
from Carolyn at Soulshine Vegan
from Jodi at happy hearted kitchen
from Faygie at Life Tastes Good
from Anne at fANNEtastic food
from Lisa's Project: Vegan
from Katherine at Green Thickies
If you still need a candified fix, try Chocolate-Dipped Figs with Almonds or Fig Lollipops!
Are you a fig fan? If you had to choose a bowlful to snack on, would they be fresh or dried? Have you ever made vegan fig newtons? What makes you do a Happy Dance?
I rarely cook or bake with figs...I love them, and I wish I could find them locally more often. Usually around Christmas I get to make a dish with them...can't wait!! I will have to bookmark some of these creations
ReplyDeleteSame here, I don't cook or bake with figs that often! But I love eating them, especially dried, and in desserts! Mmmmm!
DeleteI would love to see what you all do with them! :)
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