Take your goat cheese out of the fridge at least 30 to 45 minutes before beginning the process, it needs to come to room temperature for it to be malleable.

Preheat oven to 375 with a rack in the middle. Grease a 12 muffin pan with Pam or butter.

Make Phyllo cups: lay out one phyllo sheet, paint melted butter lightly but enough to cover, then place another layer of phyllo over the top, more painted butter, until you have six layers of phyllo dough.

Tip: phyllo dough dries out quickly, a well-rung out but slightly moist tea towel can be used to cover your unprocessed phyllo dough while you are working.

I cut my stacked phyllo into 12 equal squares, three cuts along the length and two cuts along the width.

Press a square of phyllo dough into each muffin mould to form cups.

Bake your phyllo cups for approximately 8 minutes. Keep an eye on it, when they look mostly browned they are ready to go. You don't want to make them too dark or else they are too brittle.

When the filo cups are baked, remove them from the muffin tins and place them immediately onto a cooling rack. They will be hot, use tweezers or a fork if you are inclined.

Transfer your cheese and onion jam filling into a piping bag or a Ziploc bag with the corner cut off. Pipe the cheese filling into the fully cooled filo cups.

Top with a quarter of a fig and a light dusting of finishing salt. Serve.

A couple of notes: you don't want to make your final product too far in advance, I think 2 hours tops.

You can make the baked unfilled phyllo cups a day or two in advance and stack them in a tupperware container, or you can place them carefully into a large Ziploc bag if you are the type to be careful with it and not scrunch it up too much.

Some toasted slivered almonds or pistachios would probably be super awesome with this recipe.
Don't be afraid to switch up the flavors, ricotta could be swapped for whipped cream cheese, goat cheese could be swapped for marscapone, onion jam could be swapped for other various jams. Go sweet or savory. Literally an infinite combination of ingredients can be employed, my only recommendation is to not go overboard with the number of ingredients, keep it simple.