Apple Dumplings Dessert Recipe

I don’t know why these are called apple dumplings. They should be called your very own little apple pie! I kept seeing versions of this online and thought to myself “I need these, I really do”.

So with a visual and the idea that it’s a baked apple in a pastry, I decided to see what I could come up with. It had to be simple of course. After all, I’m trying to deliver simple and easy to follow recipes. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed with this one.

As far as I can tell apple dumplings originated in Pennsylvania. A typical breakfast food. Well if you dress it up a little and serve it with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream it’s a dessert. A pretty dessert that I would gladly serve to guests in my home. If you really wanted to dress it up, you could even drizzle a little caramel sauce over it. Just saying.

Let me tell you how easy it is to make so you can have some right away.

Apple Dumplings with Pie Crust

Ingredients:

• 2 Apples, peeled, cored and sliced thinly. Small to medium size work best. I used Honey Crisp apples.
• 1 package Refrigerated Pie Crust that contains two crusts. If you have more apples you want to use add another package of pie crust. One pie crust for each apple.
• Sugar
• Cinnamon
• Pinch Nutmeg
• Butter, cut in half
• Egg, beaten
• Water

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Apple Dumplings Recipe

Delicious baked apple dumplings with pie crust is a wonderful fall dessert.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time1 hour hr

Total Time1 hour hr 10 minutes mins

Servings: 2 Apple Desserts

Calories: 400kcal

Author: Julia Jordan | Julia’s Simply Southern

Ingredients

• 2 Apples peeled, cored and sliced thinly. Small to medium size work best.
• 1 package Refrigerated Pie Crust contains two crusts. If you have more apples you want to use add another package of pie crust. One pie crust for each apple.
• 2 tbsp. Sugar
• 2 tbsp. Cinnamon
• Pinch of Nutmeg
• 1 tbsp. Butter cut in half
• 1 Egg beaten
• 1 tbsp. Water

Instructions

• In a small bowl, add sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg and mix together.
• Next, peel, core, and thinly slice your apples. I used my spiralizer attachment with my Kitchen Aid mixer, so this step took 2 minutes.
  Next, coat apple pieces in cinnamon, sugar, and nutmeg mixture.
• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Next, unroll 1 pie crust at a time. cut off round edges to make a square. Stack apple slices in center of pie shell. Next, add a half tablespoon of butter into the center of the apples and fold up your pie shell around the apple. Pinch together edges on top to secure.
  Place apple dumplings into a small baking dish.
• In a small bowl, beat one egg and add 1 tablespoon of water and mix together. With a pastry brush, brush all the surface areas of the apple dumplings. Bake for 1 hour.
• Serve with a scoop of ice cream if desired.

Notes

I added some decorative leaves to the top. They are very easy to do.
To add optional leaves: I used a leaf shape cookie cutter to cut the leaves out of the edge pieces of pie crust I cut away. With a knife score a line down the center and a few on each side, like a leaf.

Nutrition

Serving: 1 | Calories: 400kcal | Carbohydrates: 195g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 75g | Saturated Fat: 26g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 43g | Cholesterol: 108mg | Sodium: 164mg | Fiber: 20g | Sugar: 57g

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