Coarsely chop 50 g each of hazelnuts, Brazil nuts, pistachios and whole almonds. Cut 1 fig into slices. Cream fat, sugar, salt and vanilla sugar. Stir in eggs one at a time. Mix flour and baking powder.
Stir alternately with the milk into the fat-egg mass. Fold in prepared nuts, almonds, poppy seeds and chocolate flakes. Pour into a greased and almond flaked ring cake tin (approx. 2 l capacity).
Place the fig slices on the edge. Bake in the preheated oven (electric: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 1 hour. Allow to cool slightly, turn out of the tin and allow to cool completely.
Cut the overripe fig into slices. Boil down sugar and 3 tablespoons of water. Leave the fig slices and nuts to stand for 2 minutes and spread on the ring cake.