An excellent light dessert. Good with fruits and nuts, including apples, pears, blueberries, raisins, and nuts. Add vanilla ice cream to the dish.
| Prep Time: | 1 hr |
| Cook Time: | 45 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 45 mins |
| Servings: | 6 |
| Yield: | 6 dumplings |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- ½ cup butter, chilled and diced
- ¾ cup milk
- 6 apples, peeled and cored
- 1 cup blueberries
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon dried orange peel
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 7×11 inch baking dish.
- In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and brown sugar. Cut in butter. Pour in milk and stir to form a dough. Turn out onto a well-floured surface and roll out. Cut into 6 – 6 inch squares.
- Place a whole apple in the center of each square. Fill the core with blueberries. Drizzle with maple syrup. Pull up corners of dough and pinch edges together to seal. Place dumplings in prepared pan and sprinkle with cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Combine remaining maple syrup with enough water to pour over dumplings to a 1 inch depth in dish. Submerge remaining blueberries and apple peelings with dried orange peel in liquid.
- Bake in preheated oven 45 minutes, basting as necessary, until crisp and browned. Serve warm with sauce.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 444 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 70 g |
| Cholesterol | 43 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 5 g |
| Protein | 6 g |
| Saturated Fat | 10 g |
| Sodium | 488 mg |
| Sugars | 31 g |
| Fat | 17 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I didn’t use whole apples , I cut up pink lady apples , used a muffin pan instead, and put cinnamon,butter nutmeg, brown sugar, in dumplings and drizzle blueberry syrup. Delicious
Very good. I didn’t have any berries, so I chopped up an almond caramel granola bar, and stuffed the core with that. Lol. I had to remove some of the liquid, because the bottom was getting a bit too soggy. Lowered the temp to 350 the last 10 minutes. Served with vanilla bean ice cream. Yum yum!! Will make again with berries!
This recipe came out great! I used a variation of fillings along with the blueberries (walnuts & dried cherries); and I did not use the skin shavings. It called for additional flour for the dough to reach my preferred consistency, but other than that it was a hit!
i stuffed chopped pecans and walnuts plus blueberries with cinnamon and nutmeg and it was SO DELICIOUS!!! HUGE hit and so easy to prepare, i did it while my guests were lounging after dinner and they didnt even know!
Great recipe. Takes a little work, but worth it. My family didn’t care for the orange peel, though. I would leave that out next time. This recipe has a lot of potential to be used with pears or whatever you like. I did brush 1/4 c. butter on the tops prior to baking.
It took me about 2 hours total to put this together, partly because I had to core the apples by hand. I used strawberries because that’s what I had on hand. I didn’t think that they tasted very much of anything and the dough was soggy where the juices were. Next time I’ll use a store bought dough and try it with blueberries. Thanks, I’m sure we’ll use this recipe again.
Yummy! This was excellent. The dough takes awhile to prepare, when rolling it and cutting up slices so make sure you have plenty of time. But the overall taste was wonderful. I didn’t have the orange peel, but the sauce was still really good. Be sure to baste the dumplings every so often. Also, the vanilla ice cream with it is definitely a must. I am eager to try filling the apples with a different fruit in place of blueberries for fun next time. It would taste great with raspberries or any berry really.
The crust is the best part. I would like it better with 1T of butter and 1tsp of sugar inside. The mixture of fruits and maple syrup is delicious! MsJNewell
Great recipe! I served this to guests and it was heavenly! I forgot to add the cinnamon and nutmeg and it still tasted great! Definitely should be served with ice cream. THANKS!!!