Black Mission Fig Honey Cake

The season for fresh figs is in the late summer and fall, but there is a brief time in the spring when they are also available. I call this my brainstorming period for figs. In early June, I whet my appetite for figs and start creating new desserts with them. When the short season ends, I put the ideas in the back of my head to simmer. Come fall, like a bear coming out of hibernation, I am ready to take full advantage of the main crop and produce a wide array of fig desserts. | Dried figs c