SHF #35: Mascarpone Figs

This is my first Sugar-High Friday, and I guess I cheated a little bit. You see… I’m not really too into dessert. I’ll pretty much always go for a cheese course over the sweeter stuff. But then I learned that Ivonne was hosting, and that figs were this time’s star. I love figs, and I love Ivonne. So I had to try.
I was considering going for some kind of tart, warm fig in a crispy puff pastry shell… maybe a little bit of goat cheese in the bottom for a creamy surprise. But then I thought about eating it and pictured myself picking around the pastry to get to the fig… and that’s when I knew what I wanted to do.

I combined mascarpone, goat cheese, and fromage frais, a French yogurt-like cheese that gave the cream its consistency. I sliced my figs and heated them in a frying pan while I prepared my two “sauces:” the first was just fig preserves heated with a little bit of water. The second, honey infused with mint and black pepper. The whole thing took about ten minutes to make, and even less to eat. So not a typical dessert, but the melt-in-your-mouth figs were perfect. Bon appétit!