Brandied Fig Bundles

Submitted by Carla C.

"This is a great little holiday treat! Perfect for a wintery day when you want to sit back and enjoy a nice hot cup of coffee with a little something sweet. You can cheat a little if you like by replacing the 15 figs with a good quality fig jam. Omit the sugar and just add the brandy and follow the remaining directions."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 15 figs, peeled
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons brandy (use a good quality brandy)
• 12 sheets 4 x 4 inch puff pastry
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, warmed
• powdered sugar

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Allow puff pastry (if frozen) to thaw 8 to 10 minutes.
3. In a mixing bowl mash figs with a fork.
4. Add sugar and brandy and mix well.
5. Spoon a healthy dollop of fig mixture into each center 4 inch puff pastry square.
6. Fold each corner of the pastry in to the center, enclosing the fig filling and pinch to seal, thus forming a square fig bundle.
7. Lightly brush with butter.
8. Bake 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown.
9. When cooled sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Reviews

[Dorel]

I wasn't quite sure what you meant by "bundles", as you can see by the pictures I made 9 turnovers with some and made 18 min-tarts with the rest. I didn't peel the figs as there was nothing to peel that I could see. I usually just eat them the way they come. I did cut off both ends and then cut in half and put in the food processor along with the sugar and apricot brandy (that's the only brandy I had). I made the turnovers first and they weren't golden brown after 30 minutes so I turned the oven up to 400° for another 10 minutes.The mini-tarts I baked for 20 minutes at 400°. I used the equivalent of 3 pie crusts total. I don't think I put enough filling in each that's why it took so much pie pastry. The flavour was good and we are enjoying them. Thanks for posting an interesting recipe.

 

[sue_410898651]

Sounds fantastic! How about a dollop of gorgonzola on top of figs? Now it is a app.