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...

When the holidays come around, there’s nothing quite like waking up to festive breakfast foods like this warm sweet Easter bread ring that’s a favorite for Mother’s Day (though you could certainly break out this recipe for fall holidays too). A sweet dough combined with deeply sweet Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Figs are twisted together to form a deliciously...

This make ahead quiche recipe is a guide map to a host of other quiche combinations. A traditional Lorraine of bacon, and Gruyere with a twist of Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Mission Fig morsels would be lovely here too, but what we really love about this make ahead quiche is how you can bake it the day before a...

Incorporating figs into healthy living has deep roots. When you eat figs in healthy dried fig recipes, you join legions of fig lovers throughout history and while we love dried fig salad recipes, it’s not the only way to eat them. Did you know the early Olympic athletes used figs as a training food? Figs were also presented as laurels...

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...

Happy Valentine’s Day Each February, our minds drift to visions of chocolate paired with Orchard Choice and Sun-Maid California Figs. We’ve got several ideas to sweeten the month ahead. Our loaf cake will knock your socks off and is a trusty recipe to bake for gluten-free friends and family. We turned to Alanna Taylor-Tobin for inspiration. Her roots as a...

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...