like Fig Newtons in flavor.
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen |
Ingredients
- 2 cups fig preserves
- ¾ cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Cream together shortening, eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Sift flour, soda, and baking powder. Add to egg mixture.
- Grease a small cookie sheet with shortening. Pour 1/2 of the dough into pan and spread.
- Pour fig preserves over the dough and gently spread. Drop rest of dough over figs. Place in oven. When mixture starts to melt and gets soft, spread the top. Bake for 40 minutes. Cool and then cut into 24 bars.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 267 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 33 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 146 mg |
| Sugars | 17 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
They are delicious but all my fig preserves sank to the bottom so it was hard getting it out of the pan.
I just made this. I don’t know if it’s just my oven, it’s 2 years old, but I had to turn it down to 325 because the outside edge of the crust was starting to burn. If I make it again I’ll make it a 13 x9 cake pan
Tastes great! I didn’t have enough jam so I topped what I had with chopped dried figs. I will definitely try out different filling flavors in the future.
These were a little bit too sweet.
Only needed about 25 minutes in the oven. Glad I checked them early or they would have been ruined. Good taste, not too sweet.
This was OK. For me, 2 cups of preserves is too much. The bar is overly sweet and the top crust slides around on the preserves. I’ll serve them, but if I make them again I’ll cut down on the filling. I used whole wheat flour and butter instead of shortening and that worked out well. The cookie part was good.
I used the fig preserve recipe and blended it so that it would come out more like the newtons we know and love. The instructions were a bit confusing but the taste was incredible. I would recommend cutting them in to bars before the cookie part hardens.
Yum! Used Ficoco spread (fig&cocoa jam), only used about 1.25 cups of it. Put on a jelly roll pan and it really spread out- only cooked for 20 min instead of 40. My friend said she likes them better than fig newtons! Thanks 🙂
This was a very good fig coffee cake-ish thing but it bore no resemblence to fig neutons whatsoever. >.< I made the fig preserves out of 20 figs a cup of sugar and some water and suregel but not the whole package just a little bit. So I made fig preserves from scratch and I still didn't get fig nuetons! RRRRRRRRR!!
The dough wouldn’t spread at all, wouldn’t stick to the cookie sheet and the cookie isn’t very flavorful. Easier just to buy Newtons.
These are very good. I had a little trouble spreading the top layer though. I am going to make this over and over again. My kids love it. Thanks for sharing!
This recipe is Great ! Made a batch and it was gone in one day. Also great because figNewtons are low Fat.
Very good and very easy…Try it!