It's Raining Figs!

Apparently one of my coworkers is drowning in figs. Her fig tree is having a particularly abundant year. So she is showering our office in figs. If you cook, bake, or express the slightest interest, you will end up with a bag of figs. So while everyone is busy flipping their lids about the hurricane, I'm baking!

Today's adventure is a fig cake. I've never made one before, so basically I'm just making a cake, with some figs in it.

So the basic cake recipe I worked off of:

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder

And as I am writing this, I have to kick myself, because I am realizing that I forgot to add the milk. There was supposed to be milk in this recipe. Crap. Oh well.

So then:

1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup chopped fresh figs
Some allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg
And, of course, some secret ingredient!

Fancy, right? Anyway, I threw it all in a bundt pan, and threw the bundt pan in the oven until it was done.

AHHHHHH! I'm watching Iron Chef America as I write this, and it is a battle of FIGS!!!!

Sorry for the ADD moment there.

Ok so for the glaze, I just combined some orange blossom honey and powdered sugar over heat, and poured it over the cake after it cooled off a bit.

The cake is delicious, though rather crumbly. I think it would have come out better if I had remembered the milk. Oh well.