Serves 4

Prep 15 min

Cook 25 min

Ingredients

200g puff pastry

4 tbsp icing sugar, plus a little extra

Knob butter

100g ready-rolled marzipan

12 black figs

Crème fraîche or vanilla ice cream to serve

Method

Heat the oven to 200C/gas mark 6. Cut the pastry into four squares. Dust a work surface with a little sieved icing sugar, then roll each piece of pastry until you can cut out a saucer-sized circle approx 13cm in diameter. Smear a baking sheet with a little butter and line with baking parchment. Arrange the pastry circles on the parchment. Break the marzipan into small scraps and scatter over the circles. Halve the figs lengthways and arrange cut-side upper most over the marzipan. Dredge the figs with icing sugar. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the pastry is puffed and golden brown and the figs soft against the melted marzipan. Serve immediately with a dollop of crème fraîche or a scoop of ice cream.

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