Choosing from among our favorite fig recipes is like deciding between a cup or cone at your go-to ice cream shop: It’s hard to make a wrong move. Blessed with tender skins and jammy interiors, fresh figs can offset the tang of tomatoes and bitterness of salad greens. They turn simple baked goods into company-worthy desserts, and transform oatmeal, snack boards, and toasts into cause for celebration. Sweet but not cloying, figs can go from breakfast to dinner to dessert without so much as a costume change. Here are 23 of our favorite ways to put them to use.