Fig Pound Cake Crumb Bars
 
Makes 9
Ingredients
  • 4 cups (about 6 slices) crumbled pound cake (see Kitchen Tip)
  • ½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
  • ⅓ cup salted butter, softened
  • ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
  • 1½ cups fig jam
  • 5 fresh figs, quartered
  • Garnish: confectioners’ sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°.
  2. On a rimmed baking sheet, arrange cake crumbles.
  3. Bake for 15 minutes. Stir, and bake for 10 minutes more. Let cool completely. Leave oven on.
  4. Line an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper, letting excess extend over sides of pan; spray with baking spray with flour.
  5. In a large bowl, beat toasted cake crumbles, brown sugar, butter, and cardamom with a mixer at medium speed until mixture starts to clump together. Press 3 cups mixture into bottom of prepared pan.
  6. Bake for 15 minutes. Spread jam onto prepared crust. Arrange fig quarters on top of jam. Sprinkle with remaining crumble mixture. Bake until crumble is golden brown and jam is bubbly, 35 to 40 minutes more. Let cool completely in pan. Using excess parchment as handles, remove from pan, and cut into bars. Garnish with confectioners’ sugar, if desired.
Notes
Kitchen Tip
Store-bought pound cakes will have too light a texture for these bars, so homemade pound cake is best.
Recipe by Louisiana Cookin' at https://louisianacookin.com/fig-pound-cake-crumb-bars/