This really looks and sounds good...these are figs soaked in liquor, filled with chocolate and covered in dark chocolate

Bass,
I also have a nice liquor collection.
I will try that this summer. What a great idea.

Ah chocolate liquored figs and a nice setting in front of fireplace with the misses with the kids out of the house (im never too old )   ; )
Trouble is she does not like figs arghhhh.
But it sounds good to me !

Bass, do you need my address?

Jon, I think I know your address by heart by now. I'm actually tempted to buy some online myself. Here's where they can be found http://www.amazon.com/higuera-Rabitos-Truffle-Stuffed-16-Count/dp/B000NO5CC4

Bass, do you need my address?

No I got it.

Me too!
Veeery funny Bass/Jon.
[Sorry, I have no good fig-candy is available]...

I wonder how they get the chocolate inside? They look incredibly good.

Gooddaughter you ask
I wonder how they get the chocolate inside?
Well they do what Dorothy did --- click her heals together twice and Wa Lah

Im sorry Gooddaughter i could not help myself.   ; )
hope you have a sense of humor.

Actually they cut them in half first i would imagine.

A italian friend at works sister used to make a slit in fig, insert a sliver of almond roast in oven and then dip in chocolate.
Oh they were so good.

I think what I will do when the time is right is to get a turkey baster and inject the liquor right through the eye and then dip into melted chocolate and place in freezer for a couple of minutes for the chocolate to harden.

Then enjoy a couple of dozen of them.

Thanks Bass,
Seeing how my wife loves sweet figs and today is her birthday I ordered a box of 16 of these fig treats from Amazon. 
Lou

If any of you people want to prepare or make your own fig covered figs here is a receipe to follow.

I was thinking maybe they injected the chocolate thru the eye or something. Duh.

Back in the 1930's or '40's a company in Texas used to produce 'Fignolias', I think they were dipped in chocolate. Used to be an orchard down the coast to supply the factory with figs. Of course it was paved over decades ago.

Louis,

Speaking of rum. I just bought a bottle of Cuban rum when I went to British Columbia.
I will try it with that when I have figs this Summer.

Would be too much if we added a little mint with the chocolate?

GoodDaughter,

There used to be about 18,000 acres of figs (mostly 'Magnolia') along with 17 processing plants in southeast Tx.  Most of these were in the Friendswood, Alvin, San Leon area.  Since the humidity would spoil the figs, they would be picked before fully ripe and peeled in the plants with lye.  The run off from those plants are one of the reasons Clear Creek, Clear Lake, etc. aren't clear anymore.

~james

Rafed I can't see why not trying a little mint.
I was also thinking of instead rum using Italian
Amaretto or Saint thomas Banana Chocolate Liqueur
 italian amaretto liqueur.
I have the time and the sprits all I need now are the dried figs.
When I think back every trip I made to see my uncle in Italy during
month of September he would always give me four or five strings of
the dried figs he had made. I never brought them on the plane but handed them out to people in the hotel we stay in or the hotel bar to place them
out for people to eat while drinking. We always stay over in Rome for three days for two days before we head back to the states.
Lou

James:
Sixty five years or more ago my father showed me a dam blown up by dynamite that had once blocked a creek just N. of Port Lavaca.  He told me that in the early l900's promoters from back East had built the dam and sold land, telling the buyers that they would be able to grow and irrigate figs there.  The project never got off the ground, Dad told me, because ranchers whose land was drained by that creek dynamited the dam. 

Until reading  your post I had no idea that anyone had ever had a commercial fig orchard in Texas. 
Ox

Yep, and from what I understand, Hwy. 288 occupies much of the land that was orchards from that time. Have a brother who lives in Friendswood, and a couple of years ago I was driving down FM 2353 and just before I got to 518, I saw a big banner for a 'Fig Festival' of some sort. I never did check into that, but maybe I should. Who knows what kind of fun one might have....

My grandmother told me a while back how good the 'Fignolias' were. Googled for a recipe but couldn't find one. I have a Magnolia fig shrub in the yard. Fruit usually splits/ferments on the tree but once every several years, I'll get some edible fruit. Last summer was very dry here and I was actually able to pick and eat ripe Magnolia figs for the first time in oh 5 or 6 years. Huge things, just huge.

Ox,

It was the Quakers who set up orchards in the area (hence the town name "Friends" wood in GoodDaughter's post).  Also Seabrook, TX is located amid the area which occupied the fig orchards.  'Banana' (Kadota in my book) has been growing in the area since 1910... just after the Quakers began populating the area.

~james

You guys are going to bankrupt me. It's bad enough that I have to buy every recommended fig tree, but now this? Another $25 gone. I hope they are as good as they sound. 

Pezutti, thanks for the recipe.  I'm going to mess with it a little tomorrow night and will let you know how it turns out.

C.J.

Holy, mackerel!  You guys cleaned out the store! Was going to buy some for my beloved.  Guess I'll have to make do with Pezutti's recipe and some experimenting.

C.J.

Any thoughts on using fresh figs slit down to stem soaked in your favorite liqueur for a few hours and dipped in chocolate like you would do with  strawberries. Wondering if the fresh figs would break down to much from the alcohol I might give it a shot with a few this season. They do sell an already prepared chocolate dip in produce dept here that you just nuke for a minute and dip your fruit not a bad product I'm sure Nestles chips or Godiva would be better
Sal

jenia, if you click below on the link in the "customers also bought" section they are available. Not sure why the original link says they are out of stock. You can also get them directly from the sellers website.

John,
Thanks for the redirection.  I figured out the problem  There are no 16-piece boxes available; only 9-piece boxes.

C.J.