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Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

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The classic cookie now baked right at home! Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons, naturally sweet, vegan, and top-8 allergy-free. A healthy dessert or snack, these fig filled soft cookie rolls will be a new staple recipe in your home!

Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons (Vegan, Allergy-Free) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The classic cookie now baked right at home! Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons, naturally sweet, vegan, and top-8 allergy-free. A healthy dessert or snack, these fig filled soft cookie rolls will be a new staple recipe in your home!

We’re getting “figgy with it” today! Welcome to the FIRST of many “old school” back-to-school recipe remakes I’ll be sharing over the next two months! One of the biggest reader requests I get is for gluten-free/allergy-free versions of some of those classic and iconic American processed foods we all used to love and grow-up with. I also get a lot of my recipe inspiration from my own childhood favorites or just the memories and events surrounding certain foods.

Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons (Vegan, Allergy-Free) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The classic cookie now baked right at home! Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons, naturally sweet, vegan, and top-8 allergy-free. A healthy dessert or snack, these fig filled soft cookie rolls will be a new staple recipe in your home!

One of those classics happens to be the almighty Fig Newton! Nabisco also just crushed my soul when I went over to their site (while writing this) and read, “Ever since the first Fig Newtons were made over a century ago, we’ve been one unique cookie. However, we’ve grown a lot since then, and are now about much more than just Fig. So we dropped the “Fig” in our name and are now just Newtons.  Our cookies are made with Whole Grain and a wide variety of fruits – from Blueberry to Strawberry – and come in both chewy and crispy varieties.”  WHAT!? How can they do that? Newtons? No…I won’t stand for that nonsense!

Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons (Vegan, Allergy-Free) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The classic cookie now baked right at home! Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons, naturally sweet, vegan, and top-8 allergy-free. A healthy dessert or snack, these fig filled soft cookie rolls will be a new staple recipe in your home!

“Here, try this Newton“…? That just sounds terrible! Fig Newton; can’t be called anything else and that’s what we’re calling them here on Strength and Sunshine! Let me give you my history with the Fig Newton. I started off loving them as a little girl. My mom would give them to me in those packed school lunches. Then as I got a little older, I remember starting to dislike them more and more. Something about the texture and the sweetness turned me off. I would dread opening my lunchbox and finding some figgies wrapped up in plastic as my “dessert”.

Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons (Vegan, Allergy-Free) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The classic cookie now baked right at home! Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons, naturally sweet, vegan, and top-8 allergy-free. A healthy dessert or snack, these fig filled soft cookie rolls will be a new staple recipe in your home!

I never felt like I could bring myself to break my mom’s heart and tell her I didn’t like Fig Newtons. I guess I just went on with this false assumption that I still liked them. Thankfully they tapered off, but I remember still having a craving or two come back for the over the years. Unfortunately, then came Celiac and the Fig Newtons were obviously a thing of the past. For some reason that craving for Fig Newtons just kept growing and growing over the years. When you can’t have something, you know how that craving can be so strong for some of the oddest reasons. I couldn’t deprive myself anymore…we would have to make some homemade gluten-free fig newtons STAT!

Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons (Vegan, Allergy-Free) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The classic cookie now baked right at home! Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons, naturally sweet, vegan, and top-8 allergy-free. A healthy dessert or snack, these fig filled soft cookie rolls will be a new staple recipe in your home!

You all know I LOVE figs (or at least I think I love figs). I love the thought of them and the name…the name for sure. Figs trump dates any day. I’ll always choose figs over dates for a recipe in need of high sugar dried fruit. After tasting these, I knew that the love I thought I had for figs was so true and real. I kid you not, these taste like the REAL DEAL. Yes, I’m a bit far removed from the Nabisco Fig Newton, but my food memory is pretty accurate. These are probably one of my favorite cookie I’ve ever baked. Gluten-free, vegan, allergy-free…fig dreams can come true!

Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons

Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons (Vegan, Allergy-Free) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The classic cookie now baked right at home! Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons, naturally sweet, vegan, and top-8 allergy-free. A healthy dessert or snack, these fig filled soft cookie rolls will be a new staple recipe in your home!

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The classic cookie now baked right at home! Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons, naturally sweet, vegan, and top-8 allergy-free. A healthy dessert or snack, these fig filled soft cookie rolls will be a new staple recipe in your home!
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Recipe type: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
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  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  2. For the fig filling, combine the soaked figs, cinnamon, and vanilla in a food processor and blend until you don't have big pieces of figs anymore.
  3. For the dough, in a large bowl combine all ingredients, adding the applesauce and gelled flax egg last.
  4. Knead together and let sit for 5 minutes before rolling the dough out between two Silpats or parchment paper. (Rolled to about the size of the mats)
  5. Cut the dough in half and spread the fig mixture, about 1 inch wide, on one of the cut halves of dough.
  6. Fold the dough over to cover the fig filling, shape and flatten the top of the log smooth and pinch the dough seam of the log closed.
  7. Repeat this process for the other half of the dough so you have 2 fig newton logs.
  8. Now cut the logs into 1-2 inch bars and place them on a lined baking sheet.
  9. Bake the bars for 15 minutes, let cool before enjoying.
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Serving size: 2

Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons (Vegan, Allergy-Free) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 The classic cookie now baked right at home! Homemade Gluten-Free Fig Newtons, naturally sweet, vegan, and top-8 allergy-free. A healthy dessert or snack, these fig filled soft cookie rolls will be a new staple recipe in your home!

I learned that the secret to authentic tasting Fig Newtons was that bit of orange and nutmeg! Those little flavors make these exact replications of that old childhood taste I remembered. But are Fig Newtons really cookies? Some call them pastries, some say cookie. I guess a cookie doesn’t always have to be a round blob. It can be a stuffed fig filled cookie log…right? Eh, those nuances never matter. The only thing that matters is that we can now stock those gluten-free lunchboxes with Fig Newtons once again!

So tell me:

+ Were you a Fig Newton fan?

+ Did you know they changed the name and dropped the “Fig”?

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  3. I haven’t had a ‘Newton’ since I stopped eating gluten – now I can make my own! Thanks for the recipe; I can’t wait to try it!

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  8. I need to make these later this fall when I’m back in a full kitchen. Since going gluten free, I’ve pretty much given up on baked goods as most of the convenience choices are chock full of sugar.

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  12. I need to go get some figs! I love the sound of this healthier version! :D! Especially now that they’ve decided to just call em’ Newtons. What the eff!?

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  16. Hi, I’ve not had a fig roll for a very long time. I shall be saving this post to try this recipe at a later date to have with a nice cup of tea, Chloe.

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  17. We call them fig rolls or figgy oggies and they were my favourite biscuit. I’ve been meaning to try making a homemade one for years. You’ve beaten me to it 🙂

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  19. What a great idea! I never would have thought to make homemade fig newtons. It doesn’t even look complicated. Great idea! THanks for sharing. 🙂

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  26. I loved fig newtons when I was a kid! I’m so excited to try these. A healthy, gluten free recipe like this is heavenly! ? Thank you.

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    • So I guess you’ve never had a fig newton, haha! 100% different than a nutrigrain bar 😛

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