Buttermilk-Glazed Mini Fig Cakes with Vanilla Hard Sauce
By Shelly17
Muffin pans make the perfect baking vessels for these little fig cakes. Gussy them up by spooning a dollop or piping a silver dollar of hard sauce on top, and then garnish them with halved fresh figs, fresh herbs, or even pecan halves.
Ingredients
- Buttermilk Glaze:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon table salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup fig preserves
- 1/2 cup chopped toasted pecans
- Garnishes: fresh rosemary sprigs, fresh fig halves
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 . Bring sugar and next 4 ingredients to a boil in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring often.
- 2 . Immediately remove mixture from heat, and cool 10 minutes. Stir in vanilla.
- Vanilla Hard Sauce:
- 1 vanilla bean*
- 2 cups sifted powdered sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 . Split vanilla bean lengthwise, and scrape seeds into a large bowl. Stir in powdered sugar.
- 2 . Beat butter into sugar mixture at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended.
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract may be substituted. Omit Step 1. Stir extract into mixture after beating butter and sugar together in Step 2.
Details
Adapted from myrecipes.com
Preparation
Step 1
1. Preheat oven to 350°. Stir together flour and next 5 ingredients in a large bowl. Gradually add oil, beating at medium speed with an electric mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended. Add buttermilk and vanilla, beating until blended. Fold in preserves and pecans.
2. Spoon batter into 2 lightly greased (12-cup) muffin pans, filling 20 muffin cups about three-fourths full.
3. Bake at 350° for 15 to 18 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 5 minutes. Invert cakes onto wire racks. Cool 15 minutes.
4. Drizzle cakes with Buttermilk Glaze. Cool 10 minutes. Pipe Vanilla Hard Sauce onto warm cakes, and serve.
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