Southern Living Apple Dumpling Recipes

APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
• Peel and core apples.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Cut in shortening until crumbs are size of small peas.
• Sprinkle milk over mixture, and press crumbs together lightly, working dough only enough to hold it together.
• Roll dough as for pastry, and cut into 6 squares.
• Place an apple on each square and fold pastry to surround apple.
• Place in a casserole dish.
• Combine brown sugar, water, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a saucepan.
• Cook for 5 minutes then remove from heat.
• add butter and stir.
• Pour sauce over dumplings.
• Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, brush pastry with sauce twice during baking.

COUNTRY APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Cut each apple into 8 wedges and set aside. Separate the crescent roll dough into triangles. Roll each apple wedge in crescent roll dough starting at the smallest end. Pinch to seal and place in the baking dish.
• Melt butter in a small saucepan and stir in the sugar and cinnamon. Pour over the apple dumplings. Pour Mountain Dew™ over the dumplings.
• Bake for 35 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

OLD-FASHIONED APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Butter a 9x13 inch pan.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll pastry into a large rectangle, about 24 by 16 inches. Cut into 6 square pieces. Place an apple on each pastry square with the cored opening facing upward. Cut butter into 8 pieces. Place 1 piece of butter in the opening of each apple; reserve remaining butter for sauce. Divide brown sugar between apples, poking some inside each cored opening and the rest around the base of each apple. Sprinkle cinnamon and nutmeg over the apples.
• With slightly wet fingertips, bring one corner of pastry square up to the top of the apple, then bring the opposite corner to the top and press together. Bring up the two remaining corners, and seal. Slightly pinch the dough at the sides to completely seal in the apple. Repeat with the remaining apples. Place in prepared baking dish.
• In a saucepan, combine water, white sugar, vanilla extract and reserved butter. Place over medium heat, and bring to a boil in a large saucepan. Boil for 5 minutes, or until sugar is dissolved. Carefully pour over dumplings.
• Bake in preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes. Place each apple dumpling in a dessert bowl, and spoon some sauce over the top.

AMISH APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Set apples aside in a cold water bath while you prepare the dough.
• Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Add shortening and cut together with a pastry blender or a fork until crumbly. Add milk and stir until dough comes together.
• Combine 1 cup brown sugar and cinnamon in another bowl. Separate dough into six equal portions and roll out to about 1/4-inch thickness. Place an apple in the center of each dough portion and fill the core with the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Wrap each apple in dough and place into the prepared pan.
• Combine remaining brown sugar, water, butter, and nutmeg in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook until sugar is dissolved and butter is melted, about 5 minutes. Pour syrup over dumplings.
• Bake in the preheated oven until dough is golden brown and apples are soft, about 40 minutes.

GRANDMA'S APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Wrap each apple piece in one crescent roll. Place seam side down in an 8x8 baking dish and sprinkle with cinnamon.
• In medium saucepan, combine butter, sugar, and orange juice; bring to a boil. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Pour over rolls.
• Bake for 30 minutes, or until pastry is golden and apples are tender. Spoon sauce over rolls when serving.

EASY APPLE DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Mist a 9-inch pie plate with cooking spray.
• Peel and core the apple, and cut into 8 equal wedges.
• Separate the dough into rectangles. Place an apple wedge on the wide edge of a dough triangle, roll up, and place in the pie plate. Repeat with the remaining wedges and dough.
• Whisk together the melted butter, brown sugar, spice, and vanilla. Pour over the dumplings.
• Pour the soft drink around the edges of the rolls, but not over them.
• Bake until deep golden brown, about 30 minutes. Let stand at least 10 minutes before serving warm.

OLD FASHIONED APPLE DUMPLINGS LIKE MY GRANDMOTHER MADE

Steps:

• Boiling water (Enough to completely cover the dumplings and then another ½ cup)
• Let biscuits sit out while you peel and chop apples (They're easier to roll out that way).
• Peel and chop apples into small pieces. Place in bowl and sprinkle with cinnamon, stirring to coat.
• Roll out biscuit and put a heaping tablespoon of apples in the center. Pull biscuit around apples and pinch to seal.
• Place dumpling pinched side down in 13 X 9 casserole dish. Continue making until all 20 dumplings are made and placed in dish.
• Cut butter into pats and place on top of dumplings. Pour any remaining apple pieces on top of the dumplings.
• Sprinkle 1 cup of sugar over the dumplings.
• Then pour boiling water gently over the dumplings. Pour water until it completely covers the dumplings. Then add about another ½ cup. Trust me, the water will turn into a delicious syrup.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.