Apple Dumplings with Cherry Sauce

Baking Directions

For a great combination of baking apple; use Granny Smith apples with Braeburn apples, or Northern Spies apples with Newtown apples or all apples together.

Pan size: 9 x 13 inch baking dish
Temp: 375 degrees
Baking time: 30 to 40 minutes
Servings:

Apple Dumpling with Cherry Sauce

Cherry Sauce

1 cup water
1 can cherry
1 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 tablespoons butter or margarine

In a small sauce pan add sugar place the sugar, water, cherry's, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a small saucepan. Bring to boiling point. Add butter or margarine and stir until melted. Stir in cherry pie filling, remove from heat and set aside.

When it comes to apple dumplings, bigger is not always better. Use Macintosh and Braeburn apples that are about 3 inches in diameter. You'll see that it makes it easier for you to make the dumpling.

Apple Dumplings

2 cups enriched flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2/3 cups shortening - Crisco shorting
1/2 cup milk
6 Macintosh apples or Braeburn apples - or 3 of each about 3 inch diameter

Place flour, baking powder and salt in medium size bowl and mix it together with a fork. Add the shortening to the bowl and cut in shortening. Not familiar with the term cut in shortening? You're simply passing the fork through the mixture. Add milk to bowl all at once and use a fork to just moisten the mixture. Divide the dough into 6 balls, roll out the balls of dough about 1/8 inch thick, large enough to wrap around the apples.

Peel the apples. Cut out the core. Place the apple on one of the 6-inch dough squares. Pour some sugar into the apple and then generously sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg. I just about fill the center of the apple with the sugar. Place a pat of butter on the top.

Take a little water and moisten the edges of the 6-inch dough square.Fold the corners to the center of the top of the apple. Do you see now why you want smaller apples? If you start to run a little low on dough doing the final apples you can always roll it out a bit more. Pinch the dough together at the seams.

Try to place the apple dumplings in the baking dish about an inch apart if possible. Pour the cherry sauce we made earlier over the apple dumplings and then sprinkle them with sugar. Place the baking dish in the preheated oven.