Apple Dumplings With Blackberry Sauce
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 300 g blackberries
- 2 -3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 -2 teaspoon lemon juice
- 6 large apples, peeled (Braeburn are good)
- 1 (500 g) packet shortcrust pastry
- 75 g white marzipan
- 2 tablespoons soft brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 egg yolk, beaten
directions
- For the blackberry sauce, gently heat blackberries in a small saucepan 5-10 minutes to loosen up the juices. Add sugar and lemon juice to taste. Set aside.
- Core the apples, leaving a good-sized hole in each. Roll out the pastry and cut into circles at least 7.5 cm (3 inches) bigger than your apples (so that apples can easily be wrapped in pastry). Place 1 apple on each pastry circle.
- Separate marzipan into 12 pieces and place 1 piece into each apple. Add 2-3 tsp sauce into each hole, then stop up each whole with remaining marzipan pieces. Mix sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over the apples.
- Beat milk and egg together. Gather up pastry to cover the apples, then seal at edges with the milk and egg. Trim off any excess pastry and place on a lightly greased baking tray. You can use any pastry trimmings to decorate the apples. Brush with egg and chill in fridge at least an hour.
- Preaheat oven to 190 degrees C, 375 degrees F, gas mark 5. Cook apples in middle of oven 30-40 minutes or until apples are tender (test with a metal skewer).
- Serve hot or warm with remaining blackberry sauce gently reheated along with whipped cream or ice cream.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Ppaperdoll
London
I'm an American living in London since I got married in 1994 (except for a brief stint in New Jersey, and then Luxembourg). I work part-time for a national charity and also study social sciences part-time with the Open University. Keeps me busy, but I still find plenty of time to cook and search for 'zaar recipes!
Over time my cooking has meshed English and American customs together, especially at holiday time. I make a mean Christmas fruitcake complete with Fondant Icing and marzipan, but I still have a Christmas cookie party for my friends where I introduce (or subject!) them to all my favorite cookie recipes. My husband and two kids will happily eat Shepherd's Pie or Sloppy Joes, cheese and onion or grilled cheese sandwiches. The comparisons go on and on...