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     Title: Brown Nugget Dessert
Categories: Desserts
     Yield: 6 servings

   1/2 c  Butter
     2 c  Powdered sugar
     3 tb Cocoa
   1/4 ts Salt
     2    Eggs; separated
   1/2 ts Vanilla
   3/4 c  Chopped Calif. Dried Figs
     9 sl Pound cake
   1/2 c  Heavy cream
          Small chocolate candies

 Cream butter and sugar; beat in cocoa and salt.  Add egg yolks, one at a
 time.  Beat egg whites until stiff; fold into creamed mixture.  Add
 vanilla and California Dried Figs.  On small tray or platter, place 3
 slices of pound cake in a row (about 3 x 9 inches).  Pour part of fig
 mixture over cake.  Make another layer of cake; then more filling.  Top
 with layer of cake.  Frost sides with remaining fig mixture.  Chill
 several hours.  Whip cream; spread on top of cake; garnish with candies.

 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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