Homemade Apple Dumplings Recipe
Sauce Ingredients:
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 Tsp cinnamon
- 2 Tablespoons butter
Dough Ingredients:
Making the Dough for Apple Dumplings:
Measure the shortening out and put it into the freezer until you have the rest of the dry ingredients together. It will be easier to cut the shortening into the flour when it’s very cold. Cut the shortening into the flour mixture with a pastry blender, or you can get your hands in the bowl and rub the mixture between your fingers then add the milk to the mix all at once. Mix the dough with a fork just until it forms a ball. The dough will be very soft.
Flour your board, you can roll the dough out into one big piece and cut individual equally sized dough patches for the apples to sit on or take the dough and divide it into 6 equal potions and roll them out individually. Place your peeled and cored apple in the center of the dough. Put enough butter into the hole of the apple to fill it. Sprinkle sugar ( be generous) over the apple, then sprinkle cinnamon on top. I’ve never measured the sugar or cinnamon out, I just sprinkle the two equally over each dumpling.
Wrap the dough around the apple until it’s completely covered and looks like a ball. I take it in my hands like a ball after I wrap the apple in dough and mold it around the apple and seal any opening, the dough is very easy to work with. Check the bottom and top of the apple to make sure there is enough dough at those points so none of the butter , sugar and cinnamon can leak out.
Decorating the Dumpling
I decorated the dumplings with the scrapes of dough that were left by making two leaves and a stem for the dumplings. For years I made the leaves by just cutting out two oval shapes of dough for each apple and just putting lines on them with a sharp knife to make it look like a leave. If you look online you can find little leaf cutters that do a fantastic job of making pretty leaves for the dumplings.
Pour the sauce we made earlier over top of each apple dumpling. Sprinkle the apples with sugar and bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 35 minutes. In my house we eat the dumplings warm with a little milk poured over them or with a scoop of ice cream. After the dumplings are baked you can take any sauce in the pan and coat the apples one more time before you serve them. The apples. the sauce, the dough, the cinnamon…it’s so good, ENJOY!
Homemade Apple Dumplings Recipe, I hope you love these as much as I do!
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Homemade Apple Dumplings
Ingredients
- Sauce Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 2 Tbls butter
Dough Ingredients
- 2 cups all flour
- 2 tsps baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2/3 cup Crisco shortening
- 1/2 cup milk
- 6 small Macintosh or Gala Apples about 3 inches in diameter Peeled and cored. Do not cut in half I used Gala, leave them whole.
Instructions
- Make the sauce first so it has time to cool down.
- Make the dough and refrigerate it until you have peeled and cored your apples.
Sauce Directions
- I put all the sauce ingredients together in a medium saucepan. When it comes to a boil, I let it boil a minute or two to thicken a little bit.
For the dough
- Place the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Cut the shortening into the flour mixture with a pastry blender. Add milk all at once. Stir with a fork until the dough just forms a ball. Place in the refrigerator until you have peeled and cored the apples.
- Peel and core the apples. You can keep the apples from turning brown by placing them in cold water while you work.
- I divide the dough into six equal portions and roll them out on a lightly floured surface individually. You can also roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface long enough to fit 6 apples on it and cut the dough into six squares.
- Place the apples on a dough square, fill the center with butter, sprinkle sugar over top then sprinkle cinnamon over top.
- Mold the dough around the apple, making sure there are no opening for the filling to escape from. Place the apples in a 13x9 inch baking pan. Spacing them about an inch apart. Pour the sauce over the dumplings , then sprinkle with sugar. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 35 minutes. Spoon the sauce on the bottom of the pan over the apple dumplings after they come out of the oven.
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Dear Bunny. I too am from Maine and will make definitely make these. I probably will use Courtlands. I am 77 and still cooking baking strong. My neighbors in the Senior Citizen’s housing where I live appreciate it.
dearcat from Maine
My mother used to put almond paste in the center of the apple. It is also very good! Almond paste comes in a small can, usually located in the baking aisle. Thanks for reminding me of this recipe – I’ll be making it very soon.
These are so good. I used apple cider instead of water in the sauce and reduced sugar. Delish! Thank u for wonderful ” how to ” photos.
What an inspiration. I need to try this ASAP 🙂
These look terrific! Great tutorial on making them. I just bought some apples yesterday and I’m going to make some of these tonight for dessert.
Margaret, I got the leaf cutters at Williams and Sonoma online. Here’s the link……http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/2113496/?catalogId=51&bnrid=3120901&cm_ven=Google_PLA&cm_cat=Bakeware&cm_pla=Baking_&_Pastry_Tools
Great Terri! Let me know how it goes for you!
dearcat good for you! I hope I’m still baking and going strong at 77!! God Bless YOU!!
Liz, fantastic idea! Almond paste would be wonderful!
Rachel Ruysch, apple cider instead of water!!! You’re a genius, good grief I bet that added TONS of flavor! Fantastic!! I’ll be trying that one too!
Iman, I hope you come back and let me know how you did! Thanks for stopping by!
Thank you Anonymous! I hope you love them as much as we do!!
WOW this one great inovative recipe that I have ever seen. Next on the list to try and add to my autumn goodies.
One little comment on shortening: I think its poison and you shouldnt be eating it. I use half butter and half organic pig lard 🙂 it makes perfect pie crust.
These are so fantastic! A bit time consuming but well worth it. Thank you for sharing the recipe! My family said it was like I made 6 little pieces of heaven 😉
Katja,thank you fro stopping by , I hope you get to make them soon! Yes we don’t use shortening often, butter is the word in this house! LOL!!
Anonymous, yes they are wonderful! My husband requests them in the summer he loves them so much! Thank you for stopping by and telling me you made them !
I made these last week they were so good, making them again to take to our friends!!!
Roseann, I’m so happy you made them and loved them!
YUM….this was very good! I used store bought pie dough sheets. The dough didn’t get cooked through like an apple pie. It stayed very wet, but was still so delicious! I used brown sugar instead of white and I stuffed the inside of the apples with caramel candy! My whole family loved this! I’ll be blogging about it on Wed with a link back to this page! Thanks for this yummy dessert recipe!
Lillian, Caramels in the apples!!! THAT sounds wonderful!!! Now I have to make them that way! Thanks for coming back to let me know!!