Phyllo desserts and appetizers of phyllo cups are shoe-ins for New Year’s Eve parties. This is all for good reason! Frozen sheets of phyllo dough, when defrosted can easily encase savory fillings for noshes to enjoy with cocktails. Discover the magic of using full sheets of phyllo as the crust for full-sized desserts as an alternative to all-butter crusts. Before...

Around Thanksgiving, pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie reign supreme along with pecan pie too. Perhaps this is the year to make a new tradition: bake a fig tart recipe for your next occasion. Make the Fig Tart Crust Rather than roll out an all-butter crust, a tart crust uses pate sucre, meant to be pressed into a tart shell....

Fig and almond cake is a perfect bake all year long. Crunchy toasty nuts and chewy fruity dried figs make cake interesting for brunch, dessert, holidays. We have a hunch you’ll find a fig almond cake recipe below for your next special occasion. Figs Dried figs bring concentrated sweetness to coffee cake and cake baked with almonds. Toasty almonds pair...

It’s fig pie season. Summer fruits invite a plentitude of fruit pies. Fresh fig season is short, but dried fig season lasts all year long. Where to start and what kind of pie to bake? Find baking tips and a fig pie recipe below primed for your next dessert.  Baking Pie with Figs: Start Here Sun-Maid and Orchard Choice Mission...

Is there anything fig jam can’t do? Recently, we teamed up with Jackie’s Jams on a fun collaboration intended to show a few ways to invite figs into summer bites and sips featuring streusel bars with fig jam and glazed chicken wings. The key ingredient to their Fig Jam and Balsamic Fig Jam are our California-grown Mission Figs. You can...

Baking with figs brings the taste and texture of dried fruit from our orchard that sparkles with seeds. We’ve assembled enough recipes of dried fig cookies to keep the cookie jar full! Find your favorites below, featuring our Orchard Choice and Sun-Maid Golden and Mission Figs. HOLIDAY COOKIES CHRISTMAS + HANUKKAH Fig Pinwheel Cookies Cuccidati Italian Fig Cookies Brandied Fig...

It’s national ice cream month and your favorite fruit is incredibly versatile when it comes to fig ice cream and fig sauce for ice cream. Find a fig ice cream recipe to suit your tastes below. Some of the recipes you’ll find chop up the figs as chewy bites mixed in ice cream. Other times, figs get infused into the...

Summer cookouts outside mean gathering around the grill and while there’s something scintillating about open flame foods, keep your cool with a lady finger icebox cake. What is an Icebox Cake The premise of an icebox cake is simple: whip cream, spread it between layers of cookies and chill. But, of course, we can’t help but jazz it up with...

Passover dessert recipes don’t have to be fancy. In fact, we have a hunch your family and friends will find chocolate toffee matzoh with figs and pepitas to be a new favorite at your seder table. Matzoh—flat, cracker-like bread—is the traditional food for the Jewish holiday of Passover, when Jews are forbidden to eat bread or other leavened foods.  One...

Moist fig cake with Greek yogurt frosting is tangy, tasty, and oh so tempting! Orchard Choice and Sun-Maid California Dried Mission Figs make this cake a possibility all year long. When it comes to Snacking cake is just a sneaky way of bringing cake into morning or afternoon snacks and we are all in when it comes to this moist...

The Iranian New Year, known as Nowruz, falls on March 21 at the Spring equinox. The holiday is all about fresh starts, the reawakening of nature, and encouraging good things like abundance, fertility, good health, and sweetness in the coming year. At Nowruz it’s customary to serve and gift small sweets, known as shirini, which are typically enjoyed with a...

Have you ever tried making fig hamantaschen? These buttery cookies are a treat we look forward to each spring. If this is your first time to bake them, you will find this to be an easy hamentaschen recipe to hang onto anytime the craving strikes. Symbolism is Baked in One of the traditional foods for the Jewish festival of Purim...