Photo: Apple Dumplings Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 Granny Smith apples- peeled, diced and tossed with the juice of 1/2 lemon
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
Dough:
- 3 cups flour
- 1 1/2 cups shortening
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg beaten with 1 tablespoon white vinegar and enough water to fill 3/4 cup measurement
Glaze:
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon lemon
- 1 cup hot water
- Powdered sugar shaker
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter the bottom of a 9-inch by 11-inch cake pan. Make pie crust: Combine flour and salt. Using a pastry cutter or large fork, cut shortening into flour mixture. Work water mixture into flour mixture. You will end up with a nice firm pastry. Refrigerate for 20 minutes.
Make apple filling: Mix apples with sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Working on a lightly floured surface, roll dough out into a 18-inch by 12-inch rectangle. Using a palette knife, spread the softened butter over the surface of the pastry. Sprinkle apples all over the pastry, as evenly as possible. Begin rolling up pastry, starting with the 18-inch side of the pastry in front of you. Roll as tight as possible. Crimp the finished edges of the pastry closed as well as the ends. Cut this log into 1 1/2-inch by 2-inch pieces. Place cut side down into the buttered pan, placing the pieces close together. Place in oven and bake for 30 minutes.
Make the glaze: Combine ingredients for the glaze in a small pot. Mix well and bring to a boil. Pour this mixture over the pan of dumplings when 5 minutes remain in the cooking time. Sprinkle with powdered sugar at serving time.
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By Transplanted Brit
on March 22, 2011
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This shouldn't be called "apple dumplings" it is rather, as one reviewer said, closer to a strudel (though that might be insulting to the strudels my mother used to make. Classic apple dumplings are done with the whole apple, not cooked in syrup, but with pastry that is allowed to crisp on the outside. Cinnamon and brown sugar are put in place of the core and a little dab of butter on top of the sugar.
By speedbumpalley
Conroe, TX
on December 10, 2010
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If you are looking for a quick apple dumpling, then you had better go buy one at a bakery. Apple Dumplings are always time consuming to make.
This is actually a very good recipe. I also made mine into dumplings instead of this "one pan" method.
I have just a couple of tweeks. I baked mine 40 minutes then added the syrup and baked for 10 more minutes. Leaving in only 30 minutes would result in apples still too hard.
To the syrup, I added 1/4 c brown sugar, 1/4 c white sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, used only 1/2 cup butter and omitted the lemon juice. When cooled, I sprinkled with white sugar instead of confectioners sugar.
I can't rate the recipe the way it reads but it's a 5-STAR using these changes!
By Dieselmike
Dublin, OH
on February 01, 2010
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Emeril is completely out of his mind. Not only was this very time consuming to make, it was not all that good either. It actually tasted more like streudel than apple dumplings. The oone good thing I can say is that the pastry dough that was provided for this recipie was very good.
Overall, not worth the time and effort.....
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