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Honey-Baked Figs with Ice Cream

Name: Honey-Baked Figs with Ice Cream
Ingredients: 12 fresh figs; 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil; 4 teaspoons honey; 2 tablespoons cold butter, cut into 12 pieces; 2 tablespoons water; 1 pint vanilla ice cream

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Use purplish-black Mission figs, green-skinned Calimyrnas, or both for this great-tasting dessert. Give the figs a gentle squeeze to check for ripeness; they should be quite soft. Slideshow: Fig Recipes

By Food & Wine Editors

Updated on July 21, 2021

Honey-Baked Figs with Ice Cream — Photo: © Bobbi Lin

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Ingredients

12 fresh figs
1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil
4 teaspoons honey
2 tablespoons cold butter, cut into 12 pieces
2 tablespoons water
1 pint vanilla ice cream

Directions

Heat the oven to 425°. Cut the stems off the figs. Rub the oil over the figs and put them in a baking pan, stem-side up. Cut a cross in the top of each fig, cutting almost to the bottom.
Drizzle the honey over the figs. Top each one with a piece of the butter. Bake the figs until they open up like flowers, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven.
Put the figs on plates, add the water to the pan, return the pan to the oven for 1 minute, and then stir to make a sauce. Drizzle the sauce over the warm figs and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side.

Notes

Variations Sprinkle one-half cup chopped walnuts or pistachios over the figs after the first seven minutes of cooking.