A simply beautiful way to celebrate the end of summer, this Fresh Fig Dessert Cake is moist and sweet from the sticky juices of the super ripe fruit. A good dose of spices - cinnamon, allspice and cloves - rounds out the flavour, and the coconut crumble topping makes a cozy nest for the figs. It's a homely cake, good with a cup of tea, but - oh, go on - serve it warm with cream and it's a decadent dessert. Fresh Fig Dessert Cake with Cassava Flour - Gluten Free Looking for the recipe? Scroll all the way down.Friends, I gotta tell you, figs do me in. It seems to be some cruel twist of fate that something so natural, so biblical, so old as history itself - something that surely has been part of our evolution since the time homo sapiens first set off to explore the Levant - it seems to be a divine joke that this lush fruit can send my gut biome off balance and blow me up like a hot air balloon. Obviously, resistance is useless. What else can you do, when they're drooping off the tree? Well, I've learnt not to exaggerate with them, and in fact, this year I've handled the season very well. Since learning about the FODMAPs, much has changed for the better on the digestive front. I don't go stupid with the ripe figs or stone fruit now. A piece, here and there - not every day - and a slice of this Fresh Fig Dessert Cake I can handle.Caught Out with my Hands Full of Feruccio's Figs It's not our tree. It's Feruccio's. He's the farmer up on the corner from my family's old Osteria at Monte. He's quite eccentric, and his place is well known for its unkempt chaos and his animals which roam across the road. When I went to Chennai, India, in 2013, I thought, 'Oh, it's just like Fioruccio's'. You can't not be impressed by the filth of poultry and cattle droppings splattered in front of the house, the mountains of wooden and polystyrene fruit boxes, the stables and fences which have never been maintained and the discordant auditory assault of dogs barking, cow bells ...
Fresh Fig Dessert Cake – Paleo, Gluten Free
