Old-Fashioned Apple Dumplings
Description
This old-fashioned apple dumplings recipe features whole apples wrapped in pastry, infused with brown sugar and cinnamon, and topped with a sweet sauce.
Ingredients
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1 recipe pastry for double-crust pie
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6 large Granny Smith apples, peeled and cored
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1/2 cup butter
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3/4 cup brown sugar
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1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
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3 cups water
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2 cups white sugar
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1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
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 cored opening facing upward.
3
Cut butter into 8 pieces; place 1 piece into each apple; reserve remaining butter for sauce.
4
Divide brown sugar between apples, poking some inside each core, and remaining around apple base. Sprinkle evenly with cinnamon and nutmeg.
5
Dampen fingers. Bring one corner of pastry to top of apple. Bring opposite corner to top; press together. Repeat with remaining two corners; seal. Slightly pinch dough at sides to seal in apple. Repeat with remaining apples; transfer to the prepared baking dish.
6
Combine water, white sugar, vanilla extract, and reserved butter in a large saucepan. Bring sauce to a boil over medium heat. Reduce the heat to low and simmer until sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes.
7
Carefully pour sauce over dumplings.
8
Bake in the preheated oven until pastry is golden and crisp, 50 to 60 minutes.
9
Place each apple dumpling in a bowl, spoon sauce over top.