Recipe: Chef Kevin Belton's Homemade Fig Newtons

Tomorrow is National Fig Newton Day! We're celebrating one of my favorite cookies by making them at home.

[@quinnmccauley4232]

Planning on making this on an industrial scale this winter. Everyone is getting fig newtons and fig wine for christmas AND THEY BETTER LIKE IT.

[@haideral5104]

How far did you go with your project?

[@davidketels3521]

Thanks Kevin. Looks like a great recipe. Will try it. Tired of reading labels with "high fructose corn syrup" and "bioengineered food product. The old ways are BEST.

[@CeliaMitchell-ot5ir]

Yeah. Low fat FIG NEWTONS COOKIES are hard to find . This recipe is so easy snd the ingredients are clean . Thank you Chef

[@adriennelee1520]

Love this recipe.. so much easier then the mess I just made trying to do the log thing.. lol.. I will do YOUR way next time.. Thanks

[@Grayald]

Never thought I'd be saving a recipe I saw on this channel but here we are.

[@aimeeelliott7608]

did you get enough of the details to be able to make this recipe? I missed a lot of the amounts.

[@the_kitchn]

Excellent !! the best & nice recipe 👌🏻 looks so too much tasty ,I like this 👍

[@tschnall30152]

Just a hint from working with vinyl with my Cricut. When taking off the parchment paper from the top, put it dough side down on the counter and slowly peel the parchment paper off at a low angle.

[@aimeeelliott7608]

Thanks!

[@Yuvbug]

So smart!

[@goosedownstory]

Very very nice!

[@laskatz3626]

❤ thank you for this wonderful recipe. My fig tree was prolific this year.

[@willbaxtermedia]

Either that kitchen is very small or chef Kevin is very tall

[@leonardmitchell4696]

Lol. 😅

[@quinnmccauley4232]

fr bro jump scared me

[@shujaakuhaniel]

Idky I feel like this video should be on channel 12 or 32... This video is cool ❤️😍🔥🔥I like it✨

[@annetterodrigues1652]

Can we use fresh figs?

[@aimeeelliott7608]

I really liked the video and his showing how, and don't mind the cracks, but would have appreciated him putting the recipe somewhere for us. (Unless I just couldn't find it. Oops.)

[@fuzislippers]

Same, I didn't catch how much vanilla to put in (or really much after the first part with the brown sugar and butter). Sigh. It looks good, though.

[@MiRABEAU5047]

im distracted by chef kevin's height. how tall is he??!

[@ggletv]

same lol

[@Grayald]

6' 9" Yeah he looks like he's in some kind of playhouse or something

[@debrakhan8707]

I just want to see if I could make the recipe

[@DLBard-bv2nd]

Yummy! 🤗💖😃

[@mpsieling]

do you bake the top for 20 minutes also? i don't think you said how long in the video.

[@ex-trucker7434]

I went 25, but it might just be my oven is off abit.

[@jackiecrispin]

Nice video

[@자시엘]

Woah he lost a lot of weight. That’s awesome

[@jenconsumer5228]

Does he respond to any questions?

[@igottaspeak]

How much of the figs did he use? Should've cook figs 1st then prepared dough.

[@mylindacasbarro777]

😃❤️

[@JamesThomas-ej4mm]

Bro, you did not show how to cook the figs WTF

[@kayfarquar2034]

Nobody cares he didn't cut them up and show the layering and texture???

[@GangstaMojo]

I'm about to mess your world up I just found out the truth about figs.... Figs are not fruits but their actually flowers they're used by a particular type of insect and those little crispy bits that are in Fig Newtons are not seeds but they're dead bug carapace

[@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree]

I would love a source for this statement that was anything other than a popular Facebook "fact"

[@Grayald]

I'm about to mess up YOUR world. This is misinformation, And why you should do your own research when you see one of these posts on Facebook rather than taking it as fact and spreading it. The female fig wasp is quite small, and is dissolved by enzymes in the fig long before people eat it. Further, not all figs have had a wasp in it. If you take a fig, there's a better chance that there was never a wasp in it than if there was. The crunchy parts in the fig are in fact seeds.

[@ReinaPerez-l3q]

This is no longer true for many decades. There are self pollinating figs used now in confectionery and they Still have crispy bits that are not bugs at all. It was never bugs thats always been a myth

[@ReinaPerez-l3q]

​@@DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree Although it's true that "original" fig varieties require a wasp and yes the fig will have a dead bug inside, it is no longer the case for confectionery industry for many decades because of self pollinating figs. But at the same time,those crunchy bits has never ever been the bug. The bug essentially disappears completely. No crispy bits. Those were always just seeds