Categories: Cookies 
      Yield: 36 cookies 
  
    1/3 c  Butter or margarine 
    1/2 c  Sugar 
      1    Egg 
  1 1/2 c  Sifted flour 
    1/4 ts Baking soda 
    1/8 ts Salt 
      8 oz Canned crushed pineapple 
           -- drained 
    1/4 c  Chopped macadamia nuts 
           -OR- walnuts 
    1/2 c  Chopped Calif. dried figs 
 
-----------------------------------GLAZE----------------------------------- 
      1 c  Powdered sugar 
      2 tb Milk 
           Flaked coconut 
  
  In large bowl, beat butter, sugar and egg until fluffy.  Combine flour, 
  soda and salt; beat into butter-sugar mixture alternately with pineapple. 
  Stir in nuts and figs.  Drop by teaspoon on greased cookie sheet.  Bake at 
  350 degrees F. for 10 to 12 minutes.  While warm, dip cookies into glaze 
  of powdered sugar and milk; then in coconut. 
   
  Source: California Dried Figs - Recipes...Serving Ideas 
  Reprinted with the permission of The California Fig Advisory Board 
  Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias