Cake with chocolate figs and cedar with white chocolate sauce

For: 8 persons
Difficulty: medium

INGREDIENTS:
for the cake:

• 130g butter
• 230g sugar
• 2 eggs
• 185 g flour
• 40 g cocoa powder
• 185 ml fresh milk
• 120g dried figs
• 60g candied citron
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder

for the sauce:

• 100g white chocolate
• 50 ml fresh cream
• nutmeg

PREPARATION:

Mount 120g soft butter and the sugar, add the eggs one at the time, the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and the milk until you get a smooth, soft dough.Cut the figs and the candied citron and put them in the compound . 

In a buttered mold pour the cake and bake it for 45 min at 180 degrees.Meanwhile , heat the fresh cream and remove from the heat, add the white chocolate and slam to  homogenize.

Unmold the cake , let it cool and cut it into slices. 

Serve with the white chocolate sauce .

Figs with chocolate

For: 4 persons
Difficuty: low

INGREDIENTS:

• 800 dried figs
• 150 g almond
• 2 cloves
• 70 g candied citron 
• a bit of cinnamon
• 100 g dark chocolate grated
• 75 g sugar

 PREPARATION :

  Take dried figs ,open them and place in the middle sighly tosted almond in the oven,a bit of cloves crushed and few bits of candied citron.
Close them  with the fingers and bake on plate.Just beginning to gold remove them from the oven and still warm roll them in a mixted of dark chocolate grated and sugar.
Acording to a most common method you can also soak the figs right out of the oven ,in a saucepan in whom the chocolate was melted with little water and a pinch of cinnamon.
The figs chocolate are kept in wooden boxed or in tin lined with greaseproof paped.