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...

An almond roulade is another name for an almond roll cake made with almond flour. Instead of buying the almond flour, you can easily make it at home in your food processor. There’s no flour used, so the roulade is a naturally gluten-free dessert. Try this recipe for your next event and perhaps even as a buche de Noel for...

If you’ve never made a mille-crepes cake before, the good news is that even a beginning baker can pull off this stunning dessert. The idea behind this crepe cake recipe started with buckwheat crepes, also known as a galette, traditional from the Brittany area of France. With buckwheat as the main ingredient, they don’t use any wheat and are naturally...

This is the only gluten free chocolate cake recipe you need. Threaded with chopped figs, this loaf cake is deeply chocolatey. Pockets of soft figs punctuate the tender crumb of this deeply chocolatey gluten free cake—you’ll never guess it’s gluten-free! California Dried Figs + Chocolate Using Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Mission Dried Figs brings the familiar sweetness and sparkle...

When it comes to dessert recipes with dried figs, we’ve got you covered! Here are a few of our favorites with some bar cookies and confections that are easy enough to whip up for a weeknight celebration to once-a-year gatherings too featuring Orchard Choice and Sun-Maid California Figs. Chocolate Dipped Figs This is quite possibly the quintessential chocolate and fig...

Filled with Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Dried Figs, raisins, dates, almonds, honey or jam, orange or lemon peel, and scented with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, Cuccidati are traditional Italian fig cookies served at Christmas and especially favored by Italian-Americans around the holidays. It is not too farfetched to speculate that Arab influence in Southern Italy could be responsible for...