Categories: Cakes, Desserts 
      Yield: 1 cake 
  
      8    Stewed California dried figs 
           -- (unsweetened) 
      1 pk Spice cake mix 
    1/2 c  Juice from stewed figs; plus 
      2 tb Juice from stewed figs 
      2    Whole eggs 
      2 tb Water 
           7-Minute Frosting 
      1 cn Moist coconut 
  
  With scissors, snip stems off stewed figs.  Place figs in mixing bowl and 
  beat hard until whirled into small bits.  Add contents from spice cake 
  mix, plus juice from figs.  Beat for 2 minutes.  Add eggs and beat 1 
  minute.  Add 2 Tbsps. water and beat at low speed for 1 more minute. 
  Place in two well-buttered 9-inch layer pans.  Bake in moderate oven (350 
  degrees F.) for about 25 minutes.  Cool slightly.  Frost with favorite 
  vanilla-flavored Seven-Minute Frosting, with lots of coconut sprinkled on 
  frosting, between layers and on top. 
   
  Source: 48 Family Favorites with California Figs 
  Reprinted with the permission of The California Fig Advisory Board 
  Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias