Culinary Institute of America

Fig Newton Cake

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    cake ( 6 in 15 cm )
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
top 1000Baking & Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft
Baking & Pastry

By Culinary Institute of America

Published 2015

  • About

Ingredients

Ingredient U.S. Metric
Patterned Joconde Sponge

Method

  1. Lightly butter a 6-in/15-cm cake ring and line with the strip of Joconde cut 1 by 19 in/3 by 48 cm. Cut the fresh figs in half and place them cut side out, side by side around the interior of the cake ring just above the Joconde, trimming as necessary so they don’t come above the ring.
  2. Roll out the Fig Newton dough to ¼ in/0.6 cm thick and cut one 5-in/13-cm ro