homemade fig newtons

I made some home made fig newtons from the recipe from seriouseats.com
Homemade Fig Newtons 
it worked so well and i was excited! I made some different kind of fillings like
blueberry sauce
peanut butter and jelly
pumpkin
blackberry jelly

Oh and you will need a kitchen scale. It makes the measurements more accurate to use weight than cups and more universial all together. I veganized the recipe so here is my version, vegan!

8 oz all purpose flour
4 oz apple sauce
3 1/2 oz. sugar
1 oz maple syrup or honey
1/4 t. baking soda
1/4 t. salt
2 t. vanilla extract
1/8 t. cinnamon
1 t. orange zest
3 servings of energ egg replacer
1 oz. orange juice

for the filling (from serious eats)
12 oz dried black Mission Figs
2 oz. unsweetened apple sauce
1 1/2 oz honey (for non vegans) or maple syrup
1/4 t. cinnamon

1. to make the newton dough:
sift he flour and set aside.e Using a hand or stand mixer, cream together the apple sauce and sugar, honey or maple syrup, baking soda, vanilla, cinnamon, and orange zest on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add the fake egg.
Turn the mixer on low and the sifted flour along with orange juice. Shut of the mixer, the dough will be very soft and wet. Prepare a large shet of plastic wrap and use a rubber spatula to transfer the dough from the bowl to the center of the plastic. Fold the plastic over the dough and flatten into a disc. Wrap with remaining plastic and refrigerate for four hours to overnight.

2. make the filling.
Combine the figs, apple sauce, maple syrup or honey and cinnamon in a food processor. Pulse until smooth. You can either put this in a pastry bag fitted with a large plain basket weave tip or in a ziplock back with the corner snipped off. Set filling aside until needed.

3. Making the cookies. Preheat the oven to 325 Fahrenheit
have a tray ready.
Warning, the dough will be very soft and hard to work with but hang in there and use flour when rolling it out. Roll to about 1/4 " thickness. Frequently lift and move dough, flipping it to make sure it doesn't stick. Cut strips about 4 1/4" wide. Have no longer than 6" or it will be a pain to work with. Pipe a strip of filling down the center. You want it to be about 1" wide and about 1/4" thick.
Lift one end of the long, exposed dough strips up and over filling.Take hold of the other side and fold it over. Repeat with the remaining dough.
Bake for about 12 minutes, they will look slightly brown.
4. cutting the cookies:
As soon as they are removed from the oven, use a sharp knife to trim each bar into several 1" long cookies. While the cookies are still warm, transfer them into a plastic container with a lid or large zip top bag. Seal bag tightly. This step will slightly steam the cookies, ensuring they will remain soft and cake like from end to end. Skipping this step will result in Newtons with a slightly drier texture, more like a cookie and less like a cake.

My fillings

Peanut butter Jelly - pipe down peanut butter, and ontop pipe down jelly

Pumpkin - take pumpkin from can, sweeten to desired and pipe down the center.

Have fun!