How To Make Apple Dumplings

Apple dumplings taste delicious and are really liked by children. For those who don’t want to consume extra sugar or are on a diet, artificial sweetener can be used. Apple dumplings are pretty easy to make and don’t require a lot of ingredients. The key to making great apple dumplings is to get the flour mixture right. After they are made, you can serve them warm, with ice-cream or milk poured over them, in a bowl. In fact, you can have apple dumplings in several ways, depending on your choice. Read the recipes given below and know how to make apple dumplings.

Apple Dumplings Recipe

Ingredients

2 Cups Enriched Flour
2 Tsp Baking Powder
1 Tsp Salt
2/3 cup Shortening
1/2 cup Milk
6 Macintosh Apples (about 3-inch diameter)

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 375 degree F. Light-grease a baking dish.
Put the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium sized bowl and mix the ingredients using a fork.
Now, add the shortening in the bowl containing the mixed ingredients and simply pass the fork through the mixture.
Put all the milk in the bowl at once and just moisten the apple dumpling mixture, using the fork.
Place this mixture on a pastry board, which has been lightly flavored. Roll out the pastry, until it becomes large enough to cut out 6 inch squares, one for each apple.
Peel the apples and cut them in two halves, while taking out the core of the apples.
Hold the two halves of the apple together and place the apple on one of the 6-inch dough squares.
Put some sugar on the apple, along with generous amounts of cinnamon and nutmeg. Fill the center of apple with these ingredients and put some butter on the top.
Moisten the edges of the dough square and fold the corners to the top of the apple, making sure that the edges meet at the top.
Place the apples on a baking dish. If possible, position them in such a way that they are an inch apart. Put the baking dish in the pre-heated oven. Bake for 35 minutes.
You can serve your mouth-watering dumplings while they are a little warm. Add apple dumpling sauce or a scoop of ice cream at the top.

Apple Dumpling Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Water
1/8 Tsp Cinnamon
1/8 Tsp Nutmeg
2 Tbsp Butter or Margarine

Method

Put sugar, water, cinnamon and nutmeg in a small saucepan and place it over flame. Bring it to boiling point.
Once the mixture starts boiling, add butter or margarine and stir until the ingredient melts.
Remove the saucepan from flame and set the sauce aside, to be used later on.

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