Easy Fig Coffee Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 9
• 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine, softened
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 10 fig-filled cookies, crumbled (like fig newtons)
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup melted butter or 1/3 cup margarine
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 combine brown sugar, 2 tablespoons of butter, cinnamon, and crumbled fig cookies; mix well and set aside.
• 2 beat eggs in large mixer bowl until frothy. add sugar and melted butter; beat well.
• 3 in another bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt. gradually add flour mixture to the egg mixture mixing alternately with the milk; mix well. stir in vanilla.
• 4 pour 1/2 the batter into a greased 8-inch square pan. top with half of the fig mixture. pour remaining batter over fig layer. sprinkle the remaining fig layer on top of batter in a lattice fashion.
• 5 bake at 350°f for 40 to 45 minutes or until cakes test done.