Name: Fig Pincushions
Yield: Makes 48 Cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 tsp pure vanilla extract; 3 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice; ½ tsp table salt; ⅓ cup [65 g] packed light brown sugar; ⅓ cup [65 g] granulated sugar; 1 egg; 2¼ cups [315 g] all-purpose flour; 3 Tbsp boiling water, or more as needed; ½ cup [100 g] granulated sugar; 12 oz [340 g] dried figs, stemmed and chopped; ¾ cup [165 g] unsalted butter, at room temperature; Turbinado sugar for sprinkling; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 egg yolk; Splash of heavy cream

Preparation info

Makes
48
Cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Vintage Baker

By Jessie Sheehan

Published 2018

About

If you can resist making cookies called Fig Pincushions, then you are stronger than I am. The name here has been borrowed from Aunt Jenny’s Old Fashioned Christmas Cookies (1952), and I played with a recipe for Fruit Puffs from Cookies Cookies (1959). To give my cushions a richer crust, I substituted butter for the shortening and added an egg yolk. I made my own super-easy fig jam and brushed the tops with an eg