Best Apple Dumplings
Whole apples in flaky pastry with bubbling cinnamon-caramel sauce — ultimate fall comfort dessert.
Ingredients
- 6 medium apples
- Self-rising flour pastry or AP + leavener
- Brown sugar-cinnamon filling
- Brown sugar + butter + water sauce
Instructions
- Make pastry → stuff apples.
- Wrap each apple in dough.
- Pour hot cinnamon sauce over.
- Bake 375 °F 45–55 min until golden.
- Rest 10 min → serve with ice cream.
Notes
- Self-rising flour = easiest flaky pastry
- Sauce looks like too much — trust it
- Freezes raw or baked beautifully
- Day 2 reheated = even better
- Ice cream non-negotiable