Apple Dumplings

These easy apple dumplings taste just like the ones I would get at the county fair. You will need a total of 1/4 cup butter for this recipe. I like to use golden delicious apples because they hold their shape after baking. Other baking apples can be used. You can easily halve or double this recipe. The baking time will not change.

• Ready In: 1 hr
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• Sauce

• 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
• 1  cup water
• 2  teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2  tablespoons butter, room temperature
• 1  teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

• Dumplings

• 4  golden delicious apples
• 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
• 3⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2  tablespoons butter, room temperature
• 1 (15 ounce) package  refrigerated pie crusts (2 crusts)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Grease a 12x9 glass baking dish.
3. Combine sauce ingredients in a saucepan. Heat to a boil. Broil 1 minute. Remove from heat and set aside.
4. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon and butter.
5. Peel and core apples. Cut each in half crosswise, so both halves still have a tubular hole where the core was.
6. Stuff each apple half with the brown sugar mixture.
7. Unroll pie crusts and cut each into 4 quarters.
8. Gently wrap each apple half with a piece of crust so that apples are completely enclosed. Pinch all edges to seal.
9. Place seam side down in prepared baking dish.
10. Pour sauce over apples.
11. Bake, uncovered, 45 to 55 minutes or until crust is browned.
12. Serve apples drizzled with syrup from pan.
13. Traditionally served with cinnamon ice cream.