Apple Dumplings Recipe
Delicious baked apple dumplings with pie crust is a wonderful fall dessert.
Servings: 2 Apple Desserts
Calories: 400kcal
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.
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