These are the whole wheat fig bars from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. Here is the recipe. If you like fig newtons, stop reading and start baking.
Something about these bars are very springtime-Judaism to me. The edges taste like Hamantashen–crumbly dough with a jammy, seed-studded filling. The combination orange zest and figs reminds me of Tu B’Shevat in a 1970s sunshine kind of way.
I used Earth Balance instead of oil and reduced the amount of sugar by 1/4 a cup. I wish I would have left out the agave nectar–the figs I had were sweet enough without it. My figs didn’t boil down into a paste, but there are worse things you can find in a cookie than a quartered dried fig.
Figure 8 would be fig-appropriate cooking music. Or the best 8tracks mix ever: Hanging Out With Margot Tenenbaum.
