Fig Muffins
Recipe From : "Voila!" (Jr League of Lafayette, LA)
- 1/4 cup butter -- softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups fig preserves -- mashed w/syrup
- 1 cup rolled oats -- old fashioned
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Orange Spread:
- 1 3 oz pkg cream cheese -- softened
- 1/4 cup confectioner's sugar -- sifted
- 2 tablespoons orange juice, frozen concentrate
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat well after each. Add
fig
preserves with syrup. Stir in oatmeal and sifted flour, baking
powder,
soda and salt. Mix only enough to moisten dry ingredients.
Bake
in
buttered muffin cups in preheated 375F oven for 15 - 20 minutes.
Serve
warm with Orange Spread.
For Orange Spread, cream the cheese until light and fluffy. Beat
in
confectioner's sugar and orange juice concentrate. Frost muffins.
Serve
at room temperature but keep refrigerated otherwise.