Easy Apple Dumplings

Apple Dumplings

An easy dessert that is sure to impress! Great for company or holidays or just because! Hope you enjoy!

My disclaimer: Don't get freaked out by the "weird" ingredients. Rapadura is just a minimally processed sugar that you should be able to find in a health food store or online. I use this and raw honey as a healthier sweetener but if you can't find them use whatever you normally use to sweetened, maybe 100% maple syrup or maple sugar or dates, etc...I can't bring myself to encourage you to use white sugar so I won't, but it would work in this recipe. I use raw butter because it is a healthy fat, but you could substitute that for regular butter. All my ingredients are raw or organic but again, if you don't have them don't let that stop you from making this.

My recipe also calls for Spring Roll Pastry. You can get this at any Asian Market in the freezer section. They come in squares and a zillion in a bag. If you don't have those you can make your own pastry dough and use that. I just happen to have them in the freezer and was going for 'quick and easy' so I used them...let them thaw from freezer for about 30 minutes.

Apple Dumpling Recipe

Bake: 1 hour

Oven: 350

Makes: 6

2 cups filtered water

1 cup Rapadura

1/4 cup raw honey

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

1/4 cup raw butter

2 tbsp. chopped raisins

2 tbsp. chopped raw walnuts

1 tbsp. raw honey

2 tbsp. rapadura

6 small organic apples

1 tbsp. butter for ea. apple

1 bag of spring roll pastry

1. For Sauce:

In a medium saucepan combine the 2 cups water, 1/2 tsp. of the cinnamon, the 1 cup rapadura (sugar) and 1/4 cup raw honey (or you can use 1 1/4 c sugar/sweetener of choice). Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered for 5 minutes. Add the 1/4 cup raw butter. Set aside.

2. Prepare Apples:

With a cool apple slicer, corer and peeler, prepare 6 apples. If you don't have this cool gadget you should get one, cause it's really fun and makes it so easy. If you don't have one peel and core 6 apples by hand, you don't have to slice them even though the cool gadget does that for you. Set aside.

A little help never hurts!

Let the kids discover a love for baking too. Pretty soon they'll be making yummies for you!

3. In a small bowl combine the raisins, walnuts, and 1 tbsp. honey. In another small bowl stir together the remaining 1/2 tsp. cinnamon and the 2 tbsp. rapadura (or sugar). Set aside.

4. For Pastry: Use Spring Roll Pastry, thawed. Peel one off the top and dip in warm water just until wet. You can try it 'dry' too. It's really what ever is easiest for you.

5. Assemble Dumplings: Put wet pastry on a flat surface and put 1 apple in the center of the pastry square. Fill raisin mixture into the core, sprinkle with cinnamon mixture and top with 1 tbsp. raw butter. Gently pull sides of pastry up and around the apple and tuck into the core of the apple. Repeat until all 6 apples are like this. Place dumplings in a 13X9X2 inch baking pan.

Look close, the apple is sitting on the spring roll pastry.

I made more than 6 but I also added to the above ingredients.

6. Reheat sauce to a boiling and pour over dumplings.

Sauce looks pretty thin before baked.

7. Bake, uncovered for 1 hour or until apples are tender and pastry golden. Spoon sauce over dumplings. Serve with vanilla bean ice cream or by itself. I vote, ice cream!

See how much thicker the sauce looks now baked?

ENJOY!

The inside...YUM!