Fig Cookies

Leave the Fig Newtons® on the shelf at the store and make your own at home with this recipe using fig preserves.

• Calories: 267 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup white sugar
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ¾ cup shortening
• 2 cups fig preserves

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).

Step 2

Cream together shortening, eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Sift flour, soda, and baking powder. Add to egg mixture.

Step 3

Grease a small cookie sheet with shortening. Pour 1/2 of the dough into pan and spread.

Step 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.