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Costa Rica Hot Cake with Figs Recipe is a delicious desert.

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of sugary figs
• 240 grams of butter
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup of milk
• 5 eggs
• 1 ½ cup of bread powder
• ¼ cup of sherry rum
• 1 tsp. of cooking powder
• Nutmeg
• Butter

Dark sauce:

• 1 cup of sherry rum
• 1 cup of granulated sugar
• 1 cup of dark sugar
• 1 cup of water
• 1 white of an egg, lightly battered
• 30 grams of butter

Preparation:

1. Batter the butter with the sugar until it is creamy and add the eggs one by one.
2. Put away the sugar of the figs, cut and add them to the past mix, without stopping the batter, with the bread powder, a pitch of nutmeg, the milk, the baking powder and the sherry rum, in that order. Keep it battering for a while.
3. Put the mix in a greasy Pyrex of 9" x 13", and bake it between 30 to 40 minutes at 350°F, until you stick a toothpick or knife and it came out clean. Serve it with a hot Dark sauce.

Dark sauce:

1. Boil the dark sugar with the half of the water.
2. Add the white part of the egg and cook it without mixing, medium heat, until it gets thicker.
3. Put it away from the heat, then strain it off and add, while battering, the butter.
4. In another recipient cook the granulated sugar with the another half of the water until you get a syrup.
5. Put it away from the heat and add the sherry rum, mixing it good.