Baking with Michelle Darmody: Dried figs

There are lots of left over dried fruits in my cupboard after the Christmas baking. 

I seem to have had a little too much of everything but what I had most of was dried figs. I put together a few recipes to use them up over the past week.

Dried figs, like all other fruit which lends itself well to drying, was originally sun-dried along the coasts of the Mediterranean.