Apple Dumplings!

My all time favorite dessert is Apple Dumplings. Many have probably never heard of them, but they are simply amazing. They are made up of a cored, peeled Macintosh apples. Once you have successfully cored and peeled the apple, you make a dough, basically the same dough as pie crust. Then, you wrap each individual apple, topped with cinnamon and a piece of butter to keep it moist, into a piece of the dough. Then the best part, the sauce is drizzled over the apples. This amazing sauce is made up of sugar, water, Cinnamon, nutmeg, and butter and then brought to a boil. Many people leave it as this, but in my family, we would always add red food coloring to make it more "apple like."

The best way to eat the apple dumplings are straight out of the oven with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream on top. The apples are soft and the red sauce is warm delicious, and it makes the apples and crust extremely soft and soggy and amazing. The next day, eating them cold after they have been refrigerated is also good, but warming them up is always better.

I suggest that anyone who has not tried this recipe, to do so immediately. Some may think it is like apple pie because of the apple and the pie crust, but it is a totally different experience.


(This was the most accurate portrayal of what apple dumplings look like in my family, and it even has a reddish sauce!)