Old-Fashioned Apple Dumplings
Prep
30 mins
Cook
1 hr
Servings
6
Difficulty
Hard
My grandmother's apple dumplings are the ultimate comfort food that brings back so many warm memories. These lovely pastry wrapped apples baked in a sweet cinnamon syrup are simpler to make than you'd think, and they come together in just 90 minutes from start to table. Granny Smith apples are perfect here, packed with fiber that's good for digestion while their natural tartness balances the buttery sweetness beautifully. What I love most is that you probably have everything in your pantry already, making this an economical dessert that feels absolutely fancy when you serve it warm with vanilla ice cream.
Ella x
Ingredients
- 1recipe pastry(for double-crust pie)
- 6 largegranny smith apples(peeled and cored)
- ½ cupbutter
- ¾ cupbrown sugar
- 1 teaspoonground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoonground nutmeg
- 710 mlwater
- 473 mlwhite sugar
- 1 teaspoonvanilla extract
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Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Butter a 9x13-inch pan.
- 2
Roll pastry into a 24x16-inch rectangle on a lightly floured surface. Cut into six 8-inch squares. Place an apple on each pastry square with the cored opening facing upward. Cut butter into 8 pieces; place 1 piece in the opening of each apple; reserve the remaining butter for sauce.
- 3
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 apples.
- 4
Using slightly wet fingertips, bring one corner of the 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 and place in the prepared baking dish.
- 5
Combine water, white sugar, vanilla extract, and reserved butter in a large saucepan. Place over medium heat, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer until sugar is dissolved, about 5 minutes. Carefully pour the sauce over the dumplings.
- 6
Bake in the preheated oven for 50 to 60 minutes. Place each apple dumpling in a dessert bowl, and spoon some of the sauce over the top.
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