Apple Dumplings

Simply Sweet Sunday

I just have to share this new (to me) recipe.  It so easy, and it's the season for apple desserts.   
Baking apples and cinnamon makes the whole house smell good.  Then wait till your family tastes it, they'll think you really went to a lot of work.  Sugar crusted pastry, sweet apple and cinnamon what more can you ask for?  Just some vanilla ice cream to go with it, right?

2 large Granny Smith apples
2 10 ounce cans of refrigerated crescent roll dough
1/2 cup butter
1 1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 12 ounce can citrus soda (not diet)

Grease a 9 x 13 pan.  Peel and core the apples, cut each apple into eight wedges.  Roll each apple wedge in a triangle of crescent dough, starting at the large end.

Press dough to cover apple and seal.

 

 

Place in baking dish.  Melt butter in a small sauce pan and stir in sugar and cinnamon.  (I used the microwave oven.)  Spoon over dumplings.  (I made half a recipe because there's just the two of us.)

Pour soda into pan, not washing off cinnamon and sugar mixture.

Bake at 350 for 40 - 45 minutes or until golden brown.

Let dumplings cool.  Serve warm with ice cream. 

Enjoy!