Traditional Apple Dumplings

Basically just apples, brown sugar and pie dough. They are delicious in their simplicity!

Ingredients:

4 peeled and cored apples (Gala or Granny Smith)

2 tbsps sugar

1/4 tsp cinnamon

2 tbsps butter (plus 4 dabs for filling)

1 cup water

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 lb pie dough

Core the apples then peel them. I don't have an apple corer so I used a knife and my old Gerber baby spoon ... works great!

Combine 2 tbsps sugar with 1/4 tsp cinnamon and roll each peeled apple in the mixture. Then spoon the remaining cinnamon sugar into each apple. Add a dab of butter to each as well.

Roll out the pie dough and cut 7 - 8" squares depending on the size of the apples you are using. These were medium so 7" worked.

Sit the apple in the center of the square, wet the edges of the dough and bring each corner up to the middle and press to seal.

Cut a leaf out of the remaining dough, wet it and stick it on the top of each apple if you want to be extra 😉

Place the apples in a baking dish large enough that they have space between. I could've gone a bit bigger here.

In a saucepan add 2 tbsps butter, water, brown sugar and cinnamon and heat just to boiling. Pour into the baking dish and spoon a little over each apple.

Bake at 400°F for 45 minutes - 1 hour spooning sauce on top a couple of times during baking.

You could serve them topped with whipped cream or ice cream but I really feel they don't need any special treatment.