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This cake is fluffy from egg whites and nutty, rich and aromatic from toasted almonds. It’s topped with fresh figs that are baked until they are glazed, syrupy and plump. The fresh mint is hard to place but it balances the sweetness of the cake and figs. I brought it to our friend Eric’s birthday picnic and everyone agreed that it tasted like a really fancy and delicious fig newton cake. It happens to be very easy to make and is a good cake to feed folks with certain kinds of dietary restrictions since it has no milk, butter, oil, gluten or egg yolks and uses fresh fruit instead of icing. PLUS it is a good way to use up frozen egg whites if you are the sort of person (like me) who makes chocolate pudding, lemon curd and the occasional batch of super rich yolk only homemade mayonnaise.
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