Categories: Fruits, Candies, Holiday 
      Yield: 1 recipe 
  
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  With your hands, pull California dried figs gently into their original 
  shape, smoothing out wrinkles and perking up stems.  With a sharp, small 
  knife, slit the smoothest side of the figs.  Stuff them plump and full 
  with any of the following goodies: 
   
  * half of mint or wintergreen cream patties 
  * half of chocolate covered mint patties 
  * salted nuts 
  * toasted walnut meats 
  * marshmallow, slit, with piece of chocolate tucked into it 
  * wedge of candied ginger 
  * ground nuts mixed with honey 
  * fondant 
  * ground or chopped salted peanuts mixed with peanut butter 
  * blanched almonds, dried slowly in oven 
  * candied cherry 
  * chunk of candied pineapple 
   
  Arrange these good-to-eat and good-to-look-at figs on pretty tray.  Place 
  candle into a stem-clipped fig, which will serve happily as candle stick. 
  Conversation piece -- and piŠce de resistance! 
   
  Source: 48 Family Favorites with California Figs 
  Reprinted with the permission of The California Fig Advisory Board 
  Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias