Soft Chocolate Fig Cake (Photo from 'Sweeter Off the Vine,' by Yossy Arefi, 2016, Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.) Fig season set us off on a hunt for great fig recipes.

½ pound (1 pint) ripe Black Mission or Brown Turkey figs ... comes out clean and the cake springs back when touched. (Take care not to stick the toothpick into a chocolate chunk, or it will ...

Garten revealed that her all-time favorite recipe from any of her cookbooks is her fig and ricotta cake. Couric even comes over to Garten's house-bearing chocolate pecan scones from Cook Like a ...

Chop the figs and place in a pan ... Butter 5 individual cake tins or metal pudding bowls. Dust with sugar and set oven to 180oc. Melt the chocolate gently in a heat proof bowl over hot water.

Cut 4 figs into quarters and put a dollop of Greek yoghurt into each and then scatter them over the hot crumble. Serve after dinner with a delicious pudding wine. Serves 4. Baked into a lemon layer ...

this honey and almond cake with mascarpone, fresh figs and pistachios gives you every reason to have your cake and eat it too – then maybe sneak a slice for breakfast tomorrow. Recipe ...

Run the tip of a small knife around each cake to loosen it, then unmold onto plates. Spoon the mascarpone cream onto the cakes and garnish with the brandied cherries and chocolate shavings.

After 15 minutes, sprinkle the chocolate ... whisk in the mascarpone, icing sugar, vanilla and a pinch of salt. This makes a lot of icing that you just pile on top of the cake.