Fig cake

An unusual cake recipe that is just as quick and easy to make/bake. A cake for a special treat.

Preparation

1. We start by making the cake. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. And grease the cake tin with oil. Put the dried figs in a bowl with lukewarm water and let them soak. After 15 minutes, drain the figs and cut them into small pieces. Also chop the walnuts into pieces.
2. Whisk the eggs and the sugar together in your mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
3. While whisking the eggs, slowly add the milk, continuing to whisk well so that it remains light and fluffy. Now mix the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and vanilla sugar together in the other bowl.
4. Once this has been fully incorporated, add the dry ingredients and whisk until you have a smooth batter. Fold in the figs and nuts and then pour the batter into the cake tin.
5. Bake the cake for 35 minutes until done. Then let it cool.
6. While the cake is in the oven, we will make the syrup and the pudding.
7. For the syrup, dissolve 1 tbsp of sugar in the espresso coffee. Let it cool.
8. The pudding icing is the last thing you make.
9. Put the milk, sugar and cornstarch in the pan and stir until it boils.
10. Now remove the pan from the heat and stir in the butter. Let it cool to room temperature.
11. To make the pudding light and fluffy, put the pudding in a mixing bowl and add the whipping stabilizer.
12. Whisk the pudding for 3 minutes until light and fluffy.
13. Drizzle the coffee syrup over the cooled cake, leaving the cake in the tin for convenience.
14. You can apply the pudding to the cake in two ways. You can choose to put the pudding on the cake in the tin now. Put the cake tin in the refrigerator and let it set.
15. The other way is to decorate the cake with the pudding only after you have sliced the cake into pieces for serving.