Baked Whole Figs with Goat Cheese and Cranberry-Sage Jelly

• 12 fresh Black Mission figs, trimmed
• 1/4 cup soft goat cheese
• 12 toasted blanched whole almonds
• 24 toasted pine nuts
• 1/2 cup Willow Pond Farm Cranberry-Sage Jelly, or other herb jelly

1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. Cut a 1 1/2-inch-deep X in the top of each fig, and squeeze the sides gently to open up the top.
3. Arrange the figs on a baking sheet, standing with cut ends up.
4. Spoon 1 teaspoon goat cheese into each fig, mounding the cheese slightly.
5. Press an almond and 2 pine nuts onto the cheese.
6. Warm the jelly in a saucepan until it becomes liquid, and drizzle it over the figs.
7. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until warm throughout.
8. Transfer to a platter, and serve.

fresh black, goat cheese, almonds, nuts, willow pond farm

Taken from www.vegetariantimes.com/recipe/baked-whole-figs-with-goat-cheese-and-cranberry-sage-jelly-2/ (may not work)