Nannie Chune’s Fresh Fig Muffins

Making muffins is the perfect dish to make when figs first ripen and there is not enough to make a batch or preserves or jam. Fig Cake taste using fresh figs, These muffins are so good you will want to freeze figs to make these again.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup cooking oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup figs chopped
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1 cup pecans chopped

Directions

Step 1

Mix the cooking oil, eggs, sugar, figs and vanilla and stir until well blended.

Step 2

Combine the dry ingredients- flour, baking soda, pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg.

Step 3

Add the dry ingredients and the buttermilk alternating with the first set of ingredients that were mixed.

Step 4

Add the one cup of pecans to the mixture

Step 5

Pour into greased muffin tins and bake at 375° for 25 minutes. Muffins are done when toothpick or cake tester comes out clean.



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