almonds and figs.

just a quick breakfast using figs and marzipan. had bought some green figs from trader joes and had marzipan laying around. what to do? pancakes, of course! used this recipe as a base but added vanilla bean paste, almond extract, seven grain cereal and subbed whole wheat instead of plain. while the pancakes was cooking in the pan, i added sliced fresh figs to it and they caramelized nicely when they got flipped over. for the topping, i used light sour cream and mixed in some avocado honey in it to boot. so it turned into "seven grain whole wheat pancakes with honey cointreau sour cream sauce"...or something along those lines. heck, all i know is that it was delicious! XD here's the original recipe:

 
Marzipan Pancakes
(from Tea, Cake, and Sandwiches)

1 1/3 cups Plain flour
1 cup Ground Almonds
11/2 tsp Baking powder
3/4 cup Marzipan, coarsely grated
3 Eggs, separated
1/3 cup Sugar
2 cups Buttermilk
1 pinch Salt

Beat the egg-whites until you have soft peaks forming, then put them aside until later. Mix the flour, almonds, baking powder, egg-yolks, sugar, buttermilk, and salt. Then mix in 1/4 of the egg-whites and once they're properly mixed in, fold in the rest of the egg-whites and the marzipan. Heat some butter in a pan and watch them turn into sheer amazingness while they're frying away :)

 
Orange Yoghurt Cream
(from Tea, Cake, and Sandwiches)

Zest of 1 orange
4 tbsp Yoghurt
2 tsp Cointreau
2 tsp Agave syrup
Some whipped cream (I didn't add any but I think that might just do the job so add about 3 tbsp)

Mix everything together. If you're using the whipped cream I would fold it into the mix at the end.