Christmas Cookie Fig Jam Recipe

Delicious and figgy, filled with all the flavors of your favorite Christmas Cookie! Homemade fig jam recipe has hints of cinnamon, vanilla and allspice. It's sweet and delicate, packed with fall flavors! Each bite will have you begging for more. Learn how to make fig jam with these easy, step by step directions.

If you love to make, this recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Jam is fantastic, I hope you try it next!

Jump to:

• ❤️ Why you'll love this recipe 
• 🗒️ Ingredients
• 🔪 Instructions
• 🙋‍♀️ FAQ's
• What is a rolling boil?
• 👍 Tips
• Sealing and Storage
• Serving suggestions
• Related recipes
• Fig Spread Recipe
• Fig Jam Recipe
• Recipe backstory

❤️ Why you'll love this recipe 

Now in my experience, either you either like figs or not, I've never met anyone that falls in-between. I'm definitely a fig fan!

Fresh figs are heavenly! They give you a burst of honey-sweet fresh fruit flavor when you bite into them. When transformed into jam they become rich and flavorful.

We start seeing figs in late summer and early fall. And although you can pop whole figs right into the freezer (just wash them first), I love making them into jam to preserve the flavor all year long!

If you love fig newtons or mincemeat pie, let me tell you - this jam will WOW you! It has all the same flavors packed into an easy-to-make preserve!

All you need are fresh figs. They have a short shelf life, but figs are such a special fruit.

Have I talked you into trying this yet? I hope so!

🗒️ Ingredients

It's really not hard to learn how to make fig jam. Let me get you started first with the ingredients.

• figs - that's about 2 pounds of fresh figs, dried figs can be reconstituted with boiling water
• pure cane granulated sugar and brown sugar
• fresh lemon juice
• cinnamon
• allspice
• vanilla extract
• butter

🔪 Instructions

1. Clean and prepare the fruit, add to a large pot.
2. Add the lemon, cinnamon, nutmeg and butter to the pot.
3. Measure ¼ cup of the sugar and mix it with the pectin. Combine figs with the sugar and pectin, mix well and set it on the burner.
4. Turn stove on high and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
5. When it comes to a hard boil add the remaining sugar.
6. Return it to a hard boil and boil one minute, remove from the heat.
7. Immediately stir in the vanilla. Stir until it is completely incorporated, about a minute. 
8. Ladle into clean, sterilized jars.
9. Clean the tops of the jars, add the lid and screw top. Screw the lid on tightly. 
10. Process in a hot water bath for 10 minutes to seal. Remove from the hot water bath and place on a heat-proof surface.
11. When you hear the jars pop and you'll know they are sealed!

🙋‍♀️ FAQ's

What is a rolling boil?

What is a rolling boil? This is a common question for beginning canners, It's hard to describe what a "rolling boil" looks like, so instead I'll show you. Watch this quick video (only 14 seconds!) a rolling boil is one that you cannot stir down.

👍 Tips

Jam making is part cooking and part science. Follow the recipe exactly! It's easy to think you can add less sugar or more fruit and it won't matter. If you do the jam may not set up correctly or it could mold and has to be discarded!

Just follow the recipe and you'll be jam making like a pro in no time!

If this is your first time making jam, review the Jam Making Guide. It has all of the best tips and tricks to make the BEST preserves at home!

Sealing and Storage

Sealed jars go to into the pantry. If a jar doesn't seal you have a couple of options:

1. Remove the jar from the jars. Reprocess the jam, ladling it back into clean sterilized jars and again place in a hot water bath for 10 minutes.
2. Or simply refrigerate any jars that did not seal. They will last in the refrigerator up to 3 weeks.

As long as I take a moment and clean the jars off with a wet paper towel prior to adding the lids I rarely have any jars not seal. Literally once in a blue moon.

If you take this step, I'm sure you'll have the same results!

Serving suggestions

Like Pepper Jam - fig jam recipe is very versatile! It goes well with sweet and savory dishes.

• slather a bagel or your morning toast with cream cheese and top it with jam, perfect breakfast!
• The shining star of your cheese board will be a crostini with a slice of blue cheese topped with fig jam and a drizzle of honey. Add some ripe figs as well!
• every cheese plate benefits with a jar of jam! It's a delicious way to showcase the preserves!
• a wheel of brie topped with fig jam and baked is a quick appetizer - unbelievable!
• this is a great recipe to glaze a holiday ham!

Related recipes

Homemade Jam is so much better than store-bought, there's really no comparison! I have several lovely jams on the blog like this recipe for Strawberry Fig Preserves (everyone's favorite) and Orange Jelly - this jam is like a burst of sunshine!

Here are more easy recipes to make soon!

• Homemade Apricot Preserves - sweet tangy and delicious this is an easy recipe and perfect if you're a first-time jam maker!
• A little heat and a little sweet! With a pop of spice this sweet Pomegranate Jam Recipe is perfect for a PB&J!
• Low Sugar Strawberry Rhubarb Jam is an old fashioned jam with the BEST flavor - family favorite!
• This Peach Jam Recipe will have you wishing you were sittin' on a porch in the south! Sweet as a Georgia peach!

Fig Spread Recipe

Recipe backstory

A few years back Dan and I wanted to take a spur of the moment fall vacation, but we wanted to do affordable. I kid you not, I went to the grocery store and grabbed:

• a 2 foot sub sandwich (that I sliced into 8 servings and wrapped individually)
• bag of everything bagels and cream cheese
• water, wine and beer

When I packed the ice chest I tossed in a jar of fig jam from my buddy Michelle and off we went to explore the Eastern Sierras!

Breakfast was a bagel with a smear of cream cheese, topped with jam and it was heavenly! Lunches were tucked in our backpacks and off we'd go to explore.

It's still one of my fondest vacation memories and hence, one of my favorite jam flavors!