Chocolate Almond Stuffed Figs

Ingredients:

• 1 cup almonds chopped very fine
• ¾ cup semisweet chocolate, chopped fine
• 1 ¼ TBS. sugar
• Enough dark rum to lightly bind almonds and chocolate into paste.
• 15 ripe, juice figs

• Place almonds, chocolate and sugar in a bowl and stir together.
• Add rum, and stir until mixture just holds together. (If it doesn't hold together lightly pulse in a food processor/blender) until it forms a paste.
• Trim stems off figs.
• Starting at stem end, cut figs 3/4 of the way down, making two incisions in the form of a cross.
• Carefully pinch the bottom of each fig to make the top open like a flower.
• Gently stuff almond mixture into center of each fig. Press fig together to reshape it.