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       Title: Hide 'N' Seek Coffee Cake
  Categories: Breads, Quick, Cakes
       Yield: 1 8 cake
  
 -----------------------------------BATTER-----------------------------------
     1/2 c  Shortening
     1/2 c  Sugar
     1/2 ts Vanilla
       1    Egg
   1 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
     1/2 ts Salt
   1 1/2 ts Baking powder
     1/2 c  Milk
 
 ----------------------------------FILLING----------------------------------
     1/2 c  California dried figs
            -- (chopped fine)
     1/4 c  Chopped walnuts
     1/2 c  Brown sugar
     1/4 c  Butter; melted
       1 tb Cinnamon
  
   BATTER: Cream shortening, add sugar and vanilla and cream thoroughly.  Add
   beaten egg and mix thoroughly.  Sift dry ingredients, and add alternately
   with milk.  Spread half the batter in greased 8-inch cake pan.  Cover with
   fig filling and add remaining batter.  BAke 45 minutes at 350 F.
   
   FILLING: Rinse figs with hot water, then chop fine.  Blend with remaining
   ingredients for coffee-cake filling.
   
   Source: 48 Family Favorites with California Figs
   Reprinted with the permission of The California Fig Advisory Board
   Electronic format courtesy of Karen Mintzias
  
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