Ocracoke Fig Cake

Della Gaskill may or may not use this recipe, but her cake has won TWO Fig Cake Bake-Offs!
Della Gaskill may or may not use this recipe, but her cake has won TWO Fig Cake Bake-Offs!

This fig cake recipe appears in the "Yellow" cookbook, available on island bookshelves.

Ocracoke bakers Margaret Garrish, Marie Womac, Frances Kemp, Iva O'Neal, and Etta Spencer all submitted this same recipe for the community cookbook, so you know it's good!

FIG CAKE

  • 3 eggs
  • 1 1/2 c. sugar
  • 1 c. salad (vegetable) oil
  • 1/2 c. buttermilk
  • 2 c. flour
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp. ground cloves
  • 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
  • 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda dissolved in 1 Tbsp. warm water
  • 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
  • 1 c. fig preserves
  • 1 1/2 c. chopped nuts 

Beat 3 eggs; add sugar and oil. After sifting dry ingredients, add to egg mixture alternatively with buttermilk. Add vanilla and fold in figs and nuts. Pour into a greased and floured loaf pan and bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes, or in a greased and floured bundt pan at 350 degrees just a little longer. You can also add a second cup of fig preserves and bake a little longer, approximately one hour.

You can use this recipe, or one very similar, to enter the Traditional Category in the Ocracoke Fig Cake Bake-Off as part of the Fig Festival!  

Other Ocracoke Fig Cake Recipes can be found in:

  • Cafe Atlantic Cookbook
  • Ocracoke Eats! Ocracoke School's 4th and 5th grade cookbook
  • Back Porch Restaurant Cookbook

 And more! 

 

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