how do you get the figs in a fig role?

Answer 1

FIG SWIRLS

For pastry dough
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
4 oz cream cheese at room temperature
1 large egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla

For filling
1 cup packed soft dried Mission figs (8 oz), hard tips discarded
3/4 cup mild honey
2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
2 teaspoons grated fresh orange zest
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Make pastry dough:
Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.

Pulse butter, cream cheese, yolk, and vanilla in a food processor until smooth, then add flour mixture and pulse until dough just forms a ball.

Halve dough and form each half into a roughly 6- by 2-inch rectangle. Chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, about 1 1/2 hours.

Make filling:
Purée figs, honey, juice, zest, and cinnamon in cleaned food processor until almost smooth.

Make logs:
Roll out 1 piece of dough between 2 sheets of wax paper into a 10- by 8-inch rectangle (about 1/3 inch thick), long side facing you. Remove top sheet of wax paper and gently spread one fourth of fig mixture over bottom half of dough, leaving a 1/4-inch border. Using wax paper as an aid, roll dough, jelly-roll style, halfway, enclosing fig mixture. Flip dough, with wax paper. Remove paper. Spread with one third of remaining fig mixture and roll in same manner, to form an S-shaped log. Make another log. Chill logs, wrapped in wax paper, until firm, at least 4 hours.

Bake cookies:
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.

Cut logs crosswise into 1/3-inch-thick slices and arrange slices about 2 inches apart on lightly buttered baking sheets. Bake until pastry is pale golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer to racks to cool.

Cooks' notes:
• Unbaked logs can be chilled up to 3 days.
• Cookies keep, layered between sheets of wax paper or parchment, in an airtight container at room temperature 1 week.

Makes about 4 dozen cookies.

Answer 2

Well if you read the packets you'll find that the middles are made from fig paste, which means the figs have been mashed into a paste, this is to make it easier to spread on the biscuit pastry,and to brake down the seeds,

Answer 3

Boil or mash the figs before you put them in a pastry.

Answer 4

Mash up the figs, spread them on the roll, roll it up and bake if necessary. Simple, huh?

Answer 5

Is it you who's been stealing the figs from the tree in my garden??

Answer 6

have you not seen the fig roll add
it clearly states that aliens do it cos they have more hands
and can do it quicklier

as i said its an add

Answer 7

They just grow like that, you pick them off the tree, give them a bit of a rub against your trouser leg and pop them in a box.

Answer 8

Put them in the dough before baking.

Answer 9

Same way you get the sausage in a sausage roll.

Answer 10

You thick, or what?