Chunky Fig And White Chocolate Biscuits

• 12.4 ounces cake flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
• Pinch salt
• 10 ounces butter
• 2/3 cup white sugar
• 2/3 cup cups light brown sugar
• 1 extra large egg
• 1 extra large egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
• 4 ounces white chocolate, chopped into chunks
• 1 1/2 cups dried soft figs, chopped

1. Preheat the oven to 180C. A fan oven is best here, but if you use conventional, then keep an eye out and rotate the baking sheets.
2. Sieve together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, and salt.
3. In a free- standing mixer (or with you Pop-Eye style right arm) cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Gradually add the egg and egg yolk and beat until blended. Add in the vanilla.
4. Add the dry ingredients gradually, by the large spoonful. Lastly fold in the figs and white chocolate.
5. Using a spoon to measure, roll small balls out and place on cookie sheets on baking parchment or silicone mats. Squash the balls down a bit with your palm, or flatten with a fork (although they won't look like in the picture, then). You will need at least 3 or 4 cookie sheets, so you might have to rotate them in the oven.
6. Bake for about 15-18 minutes. Allow to cool on tray for a few minutes then transfer to a wire rack. Get ready to swat away all the nibblers that are bound to have followed their noses into the kitchen by now.

cake flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt, butter, white sugar, light brown sugar, egg, egg yolk, vanilla bean paste, white chocolate

Taken from food52.com/recipes/13212-chunky-fig-and-white-chocolate-biscuits (may not work)