Why the quotations marks around the Fig you asked?
Well I made them with prunes (or medjool dates will work too) since they’re way softer and easier to deal with in a mini-batch situation compared to figs.
Did they still hit the fig newton spot though? Oh yes they did.
Even almost slightly better if you ask me due to the slightly more cookie like texture of the outside.
I didn’t sweeten the prune (or date) filling at all but gave you the option to add a little sugar if you desire.
I hope you give this one a try, I was super excited to create it!
Recipe inspired by my mini-batch lemon sugar cookie dough and this method.
Mini-batch “Fig” Newtons
Servings: 4 cookies
Calories: 82kcal
Equipment
- Cookie sheet
Ingredients
Cookie dough
- 1 tbsp (plant) butter softened (14 g)
- 1 tbsp sugar (12 g) sub granulated sweetener
- 1/4 cup flour (30 g) gf all purpose if desired, you can sub a bit of flax seed to make it more interesting
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1-2 tsp (nut) milk or water
- pinch of salt
Filling
- 1 oz prunes or medjool dates (30 g) sub any preserves you like, about 2 tbsp
- 1 tbsp (optional) sugar (12 g)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and line a cookie sheet with parchment.
- Soak your prunes (or dates) in hot water while preparing the cookie dough.
- In a small bowl and a fork/whisk cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy (took me a few min).
- Add flour, baking powder, pinch of salt and mix. This will be crumbly.
- Add 1 tsp milk at a time and mix until you get a soft non-sticky cookie dough. Refrigerate 10 min.
- While refrigerating the dough, drain your fruit and mash with a fork until it's a paste (adding optional 1 tbsp sugar if you prefer).
- On a parchment lined cookie sheet shape the cookie dough into a rough rectangle and roll it out between two pieces of parchment until about 1/8 inch thick.
- Add the paste on the rolled out dough in a line.
- Cover it with the rest of the dough so it's a long filled log.
- Slice into 4 cookies.
- Bake cookies for 15 mins minutes (you don't need to separate them), cool and enjoy!
Notes
If you must use figs for your fig newtons, sub 2 tbsp fig preserves for the filling.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 cookie | Calories: 82kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 51mg | Potassium: 61mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 143IU | Vitamin C: 0.04mg | Calcium: 21mg | Iron: 0.5mg
this recipe is nuts. even after adding 4 tspns of milk the dough was not wet enough to come together. i think the recipe is fake, id love to see a video
Hi Bigfoot, I’m guessing you measured way too much flour. Try again with a food scale or use the spoon & level technique. Still shouldn’t have needed 4 tbsp milk though. None of my recipes are fake LOL, there are literal images in the recipe card.
I think the guy above me who failed didn’t use a kitchen scale. 🤣 This recipe is literally fail-proof LOL.
I doubled the recipe to make 8 cookies, used light brown sugar (instead of white), and subbed the AP flour 1:1 with whole wheat pastry flour. To the doubled recipe, for some extra pizzazz, I added 1/4 tsp cinnamon to the dough and 1/2 tsp orange zest to the filling. These cookies smelled incredible while baking and tasted even better! Another successful baked good recipe from your website! 😃