December 6th, 2010 marks my husband's and my 30th wedding anniversary! I started cooking and baking for him when we were dating. This is one of the first desserts I baked for him. I looked thru my Betty Crocker cookbook for hours trying to find the perfect dessert and thought this looked fairly easy and very tasty. It was good 30 years ago and is just as good today.
Boil for 3 minutes: 2/3 cup sugar, 1 1/2 cups water, 2 Tblsp and 1/4 tsp cinnamon, set aside. This will make a syrup while the apples bake.
Pare and core 4 medium tart, juicy apples. Roll out pastry to 1/8" and cut into 7" squares.
Mix: 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tsp cinnamon. Place apple in center of pastry, fill center of apple with cinnamon-sugar mixture and dot with butter. Bring opposite points of pastry up over the apple. Overlap, moisten and seal. Place in pyrex pan and pour syrup in pan but not on apples. Bake at 425 degrees for 40-45 minutes. Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. Use syrup from pan to drizzle over apples.
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Yum - I love apple dumplings! Happy Anniversary!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on 30 years! What a sweet story behind the dumplings - which look wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThese look great!! Happy Anniversary.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on 30 years. Nearly there myself 29 this April. Time sure does fly doesn't it.
ReplyDeleteOh YUM, that sounds divine!!
ReplyDeleteHAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
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Happy anniversary. We were 31 years this year. These look wonderful. I love how you didn't try to close them up completely. The way you made them is really beautiful. I bought puff pastry to use on my apples from my tree. I think the apples are still good but the pastry went bad. I will still have to try them.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary, albeit a bit late. I hope you had a wonderful day. Your dumplings look delicious. Have a good weekend. Blessings...Mary
ReplyDeleteThese look absolutely delicious! Merry Christmas to you.
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