Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Mini Fig Cakes for Fall and Ginger Jazzed Brownies



Another Tuesdays with Dorie twofer here, just can't seem to get them up on time! This week our recipe pick was A Fig Cake For Fall, picked for us to try by Ursula of Cookie Rookie, thank you Ursula! I looked and looked for fresh figs but could not find any, so I used dried figs instead. I also switched out the lemon for an orange and made a half batch of mini cakes instead of one big one.


Here are the cakes before baking, I only had enough batter to fill five jumbo "Baker's Secret Texas sized" muffin cups.


Here are the dried figs simmering in the orange scented honey wine sauce, yum!


Here is what they looked like after baking and dusted with some powdered sugar, sadly, I let my wine sauce simmer too long and it turned into more of a thick caramel, and not in a good way, so I couldn't use it on my cakes, but the little taste I had was delicious!


I topped them with whipped cream and they were absolutely delicious, although different from their intended version, they were enjoyed. You can see that the dried figs sank to the bottom, but that was fine...


Now on to last week's recipe, Ginger Jazzed Brownies, picked for us to try by Clivia of Bubie’s Little Baker...


While I was buying fresh ginger, I saw this little jar of chopped ginger and had to give it a try. I love ginger but hate chopping it and thought the finely minced texture (almost a paste) would work perfectly in these brownies, since last time we made the chocolate gingerbread with TWD the ginger chunks were a little too overpowering for my clan. I ended up loving this jarred ginger and immediately went to amazon to see if I could order it in bulk, sadly, to no avail -- come on Christopher Ranch, sell on ammy!


The jarred ginger worked perfectly and I personally loved these brownies, they were so delicious! My kids and the neighbor kid loved them too, I heard they were "awesome!" -- which always makes a baking mommy smile. Picky husband on the other hand, poor guy was excited to try these, and I failed to mention they were ginger brownies, he took one bite and said "yuck!" and thought they were gross. Sorry, honey, I will make you regular brownies soon :)

6 comments:

Tia said...

i haven't seen something so cute! i love this!!!

Nicole said...

I love the mini fig cakes. So strange that the figs sank to the bottom!
I liked the ginger brownies but I think you either liked them or you didn't.

Peggy said...

The brownies are beautiful and I am sure the dried figs worked just as well as the fresh. It all looks wonderful.

alvarosa said...

Your mini-cakes look so lovely! I can imagine this one as minis very well. And I'm sure the dried figs made no difference in taste. Thanks for baking with me this week!

Flourchild said...

Everything looks so good! Im glad you got to catch up !
I love how you made the cakes mini, they look tasty! I didn't bother to search for figs. I used apples instead.

Jaime said...

how funny that your figs sank to the bottom! love how you topped them with cream :)

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