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Fig Cookies

By: Suzanne Stull 
"Similar to Fig Newtons."

This Kitchen Approved Recipe has an average star rating of 3.9 Rate/Review | Read Reviews (8)

 

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Original Recipe Yield 2 dozen
 

Ingredients

  • 2 cups fig preserves
  • 3/4 cup shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
  2. Cream together shortening, eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Sift flour, soda, and baking powder. Add to egg mixture.
  3. Grease a small cookie sheet with shortening. Pour 1/2 of the dough into pan and spread.
  4. Pour fig preserves over the dough and gently spread. Drop rest of dough over figs. Place in oven. When mixture starts to melt and gets soft, spread the top. Bake for 40 minutes. Cool and then cut into 24 bars.

Nutritional Information open nutritional information

Amount Per Serving  Calories: 267 | Total Fat: 13.8g | Cholesterol: 35mg Powered by ESHA Nutrient Database

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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed on Oct. 16, 2003 by JOANNE1000   view full review
This recipe is Great ! Made a batch and it was gone in one day. Also great because figNewtons...
The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed on Apr. 28, 2004 by M7MAMA   view full review
These are very good. I had a little trouble spreading the top layer though. I am going to...
The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed on Aug. 2, 2010 by FORREST   view full review
I used the fig preserve recipe and blended it so that it would come out more like the newtons...
The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed on Jan. 4, 2010 by danielle terese   view full review
Yum! Used Ficoco spread (fig&cocoa jam), only used about 1.25 cups of it. Put on a jelly roll...
The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed on Oct. 16, 2003 by RUMPLE64   view full review
Very good and very easy...Try it!
The reviewer gave this recipe 3 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed on Mar. 30, 2011 by Kosovo cook   view full review
This was OK. For me, 2 cups of preserves is too much. The bar is overly sweet and the top...
The reviewer gave this recipe 3 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed on Oct. 14, 2008 by kitchenprincess   view full review
This was a very good fig coffee cake-ish thing but it bore no resemblence to fig neutons...
The reviewer gave this recipe 2 stars. This recipe averages a 3.9 star rating.
Reviewed on Oct. 18, 2006 by Karen   view full review
The dough wouldn't spread at all, wouldn't stick to the cookie sheet and the cookie isn't very...

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