Fig Swirls

• For pastry dough:
• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
• 4 oz cream cheese at room temperature
• 1 large egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• For filling:
• 1 cup packed soft dried Mission figs (8 oz), hard tips discarded
• 3/4 cup mild honey
• 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
• 2 teaspoons grated fresh orange zest
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1. Make pastry dough:
2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.
3. Pulse butter, cream cheese, yolk, and vanilla in a food processor until smooth, then add flour mixture and pulse until dough just forms a ball.
4. Halve dough and form each half into a roughly 6- by 2-inch rectangle. Chill, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, about 1 1/2 hours.
5. Make filling:
6. Puree figs, honey, juice, zest, and cinnamon in cleaned food processor until almost smooth.
7. Make logs:
8. Roll out 1 piece of dough between 2 sheets of wax paper into a 10- by 8-inch rectangle (about 1/3 inch thick), long side facing you. Remove top sheet of wax paper and gently spread one fourth of fig mixture over bottom half of dough, leaving a 1/4-inch border.
9. Using wax paper as an aid, roll dough, jelly-roll style, halfway, enclosing fig mixture. Flip dough, with wax paper. Remove paper.
10. Spread with one third of remaining fig mixture and roll in same manner, to form an S-shaped log. Make another log.
11. Chill logs, wrapped in wax paper, until firm, at least 4 hours.
12. Bake cookies:
13. Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375u0b0F.
14. Cut logs crosswise into 1/3-inch-thick slices and arrange slices about 2 inches apart on lightly buttered baking sheets. Bake until pastry is pale golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer to racks to cool.
15. Cooks' notes:
16. Unbaked logs can be chilled up to 3 days.
17. Cookies keep, layered between sheets of wax paper or parchment, in an airtight container at room temperature 1 week.

pastry, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, unsalted butter, cream cheese, egg yolk, vanilla, honey, orange juice, orange zest, cinnamon

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/fig-swirls-51526311 (may not work)