This Easy Cinnamon Apple Dumplings Recipe makes a delicious treat that your family and friends will love. You’ll also find tips about choosing apples and making the entire process easier!
One of our readers, Bea sent this Cinnamon Apple Dumplings Recipe to me and I made a few adjustments to it.
Often we get questions about what kind of apples should be used in a recipe like this. I don’t usually say exactly because I think what kind of apples you use is personal preference.
Many diehards who make apple pies and other similar recipes say you need to use a tart apple like a Granny Smith apple that holds it’s shape and has various other benefits, but I usually don’t like these. They are too tart and too hard for my own personal taste.
I prefer my apples to be sweet and soft. I try to compromise though and will often use a combination of apples in a recipe to get a little of both. Usually, I use Gala apples for my pies and apple snacks because they are what I have on hand to use as regular eating apples. The bottom line is I personally use what I am given or have on hand.
Cinnamon Apple Dumplings Recipe
1/4 cup butter, melted*
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
1 (8 oz.) can crescent rolls
2 apples, peeled, cored, and chopped
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
2 Tbsp. flour
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 cup chopped nuts
powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cook sugar and water until the sugar is dissolved and set aside. Press out crescent dough into a rectangle shape.
Toss apples with brown sugar, flour and cinnamon.** Sprinkle this mixture over the dough.
Starting at the short end, roll up jelly roll style. Seal the seam and slice about 3/4 inch thick. Lay in an 7×11 or 9×9 pan that has the melted butter in it. Carefully pour sugar syrup over everything and bake 35-38 minutes until golden brown.
You may dust with powdered sugar or sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
*I don’t use my dishwasher and I am always trying to reduce the number of dishes I have. In a case like this, when I need melted butter, I grab the pan I am going to use to bake the dumplings. I add the butter to the pan and place it in the oven while it is preheating to melt. If you do this, watch it because as soon as it is almost all melted I pull the pan out.
**I would probably not toss these together. Instead, I would sprinkle apples onto the dough; then add the flour, sugar and cinnamon on top of them.
I also don’t like my apples in any apple recipes to be only partially cooked so if I had time I would place this mixture in a bowl and microwave it for about a minute to partially cook the apples before spreading it on to the dough.
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Hi Jill, The recipe does look so good. I might make it this weekend along with that barley soup recipe you have on here. I’ve been hungry for soup lately. I agree about the apples. I like sweeter ones and usually use the ones I like I use.
Hi, Jill
This recipe sounds good!
Even though I do like Granny Smiths, when I want to bake something
with apples, I, too, use whatever I have on hand. And I certainly have
never noticed a difference in quality. There are different
flavors, but they’re always good. If I think an apple is sweet, I add
less sugar to the recipe.
Great timing with this post! My family went to a self-pick orchard over the weekend and picked several different types of apples. I honestly don’t know what all we got because the kids and their cousins had fun going from tree to tree and mixing the box. Ha ha! They eat good, so I bet they’ll be good in this recipe! Nothing good was on TV last night, so I decided to make some apple bread. I made 12 mini loaves and 4 regular size loaves. I decided to wrap and put the mini loaves in the freezer to give teachers, Sunday school teachers, the mailman, hair dresser, etc as nice little “Thank You” at Christmas. I also froze 3 of the larger loaves for later use. This morning instead of regular toast for breakfast, I pan-browned slices of apple bread to go with our scrambled eggs. Good eating! I think I’ll make the little dumplings for dessert this evening.
Do you have a video on this recipe or step by step pics.
No we don’t Crystal but it is a very simple recipe and if you just go step by step as it is written you should be able to do it. It is especially easy because you are using canned crescent rolls for the dough