Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings

With their warm crescent roll crust, tender fresh apple filling, and cinnamon-sugar goodness baked on top, Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings are the perfect fall comfort food dessert. Quick, easy, and oh-so-good!
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I must admit, the first time I heard about this Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings recipe from my mother-in-law, I didn't think it would work. Nor did I think it would be any good.

Basically, you wrap some crescent roll dough around apple chunks, season it with cinnamon-sugar, pour in a whole bunch of sugar water, and bake it.

Sounds easy enough. And pretty much anything made with crescent rolls is delicious.

But, pour in sugar water over the little apple-crescent bundles and bake it up? -- How on Earth was that going to work? I was skeptical, for sure. I envisioned a huge watery, sugary, soggy mess.

The dumplings are soft on the bottom from baking within the sugary water, with wonderful cinnamon-puffiness on the top.

Much to my pleasant surprise, however, the recipe works! It works to deliver up puffy, tender little apple-filled dumplings encrusted in fabulously tasty cinnamon-sugar topping. The dumplings are soft on the bottom from baking within the sugary water, with wonderful cinnamon-puffiness on the top.

I'm not exactly how this recipe works to deliver up such apple-cinnamon delicious - but it does. And my skepticism over this recipe has been laid to rest. Ohhhh, it's so delicious.

Thanks to my mother-in-law's introduction, these little apple dumplings, along with their Crescent Roll Peach Dumplings cousins, are now one of my go-to quick and easy desserts.

Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings Ingredients:

It doesn't take a ton of ingredients to make Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings, which is nice. These easy Apple Dumplings take just 6 simple ingredients to make. And one of those 6? -- It's water. 

To whip up a pan, you'll need:

• Crescent rolls - Create the outer doughy dumpling layer of the apple dumplings. Two 8-ounce tubes are needed for this recipe.

• Apples - Four fresh apples, peeled, cored, & cut in quarters, serve as the dumplings' apple filling. You can use any type of apple you'd like. -- We usually use Granny Smith or McIntosh.

• Water - The base of the dumplings' sugar-water cooking liquid. Poured over the dumplings before baking, it creates finished dumplings that are soft on the bottom with wonderful cinnamon-encrusted puffiness on the top. You can substitute a 12-ounce can of Sprite or other lemon-lime soda instead of the sugar-water, if you'd like. Diet soda also works just fine.

• Granulated sugar - Sweetens the water-based cooking liquid and the dumplings' cinnamon-sugar topping.

• Butter - Adds richness to the dumplings' cooking liquid, as well as helps create a nice layer of crispness on top as the butter mixes with the cinnamon-sugar topping.

• Cinnamon - Mixed with granulated sugar, ground cinnamon sprinkled on top of the dumplings before baking adds wonderful cinnamon flavor and creates a nice layer of crisp topping on the finished baked dumplings.

These easy Apple Dumplings take just 6 simple ingredients to make. And one of those 6? -- It's water.

How to Make Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings:

Let's take a look step-by-step at how to whip up a pan of these tasty little Crescent-wrapped apple dumplings. -- It truly is really easy.

Start by peeling and coring some apples - pretty much any good baking apple will work. Then cut the apples into quarters so you have pretty good-sized apple chunks.

Place each apple piece on the wide end of a crescent roll dough triangle:

Then roll the crescent dough up around the apple chunk to create a little apple-filled crescent bundle:

Place the apple dumpling bundles in a baking dish.

Combine some water and sugar in a saucepan and bring it to a boil to dissolve the sugar. Then pour the sugar-water directly over the apple dumplings in the baking dish, drenching each one with the sugar-water.

Some similar apple dumpling recipes call for Sprite or Mountain Dew soda instead of sugar water. If you'd rather use soda, that would be fine.  I've never made these with Mountain Dew, but I have made them with Sprite and it works well. The results are pretty much the same.

I like the sugar-water option, because we rarely have soda on hand at the house. And then I don't need to buy soda!

In the same way as the sugar-water, pour some melted butter over the dumplings, drizzling each one with some of the butter, too.

Then mix together some ground cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl until it's well combined.

Generously sprinkle the cinnamon-sugar evenly over the apple dumplings, using up all the cinnamon mixture. It'll be a good bit sprinkled on, but it'll all go on there just fine.

Finally, bake the dumplings up for about 30 minutes until they're cooked through, puffy, and the apples are tender inside.

Then serve them up warm just as they are, or add a dollop of whipped cream or scoop of vanilla ice cream if you’d like. Both are super tasty with the warm dumplings.

Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings are great warm straight from the oven, or at room temperature. But we do like ours best nice and warm.

But don't worry about those leftovers if you don't think you can devour an entire pan -- these dumplings reheat very well. Just spoon a dumpling or two onto a plate, and pop them in the microwave for a few seconds.

And be ready to dive into apple dumpling deliciousness! Warm crescent roll crust and tender apple filling, with cinnamon-sugar goodness baked on the top, may just be the perfect fall comfort food dessert.

Check out these other tasty dessert recipes:

• Crescent Roll Peach Dumplings
• Caramel Apple Cheesecake Squares
• Mom's Apple Crisp
• Simple Honey-Baked Apples
• Crescent Pecan Pie Squares
• Pecan Streusel Pumpkin Pie
• More dessert recipes

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Desserts

American

Yield: 16 dumplings

Author: Tracey | The Kitchen is My Playground

How to Make Crescent Roll Apple Dumplingshttps://youtu.be/gxmdarQlLxIDemonstration of how to make Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings

Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings

With their warm crescent roll crust, tender fresh apple filling, and cinnamon-sugar goodness baked on top, Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings are the perfect fall comfort food dessert. Quick, easy, and oh-so-good!

Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 35 MinTotal time: 50 Min

Ingredients

For the dumplings:

• 2 (8 oz.) tubes crescent rolls
• 4 apples, peeled, cored, & cut in quarters
• 1 1/2 c. granulated sugar
• 1 1/2 c. water
• 8 T. (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted

For the topping:

• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/4 c. granulated sugar

Instructions

1. Unroll crescent dough and separate into individual triangles. Place an apple quarter at the wide end of a crescent roll triangle and roll dough around the apple, from wide dough end to small. Place in a greased 9x13-inch baking dish. Repeat with remaining crescent dough triangles and apple quarters.
2. Place water and the 1 1/2 cups sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently, to dissolve the sugar.
3. Pour the hot sugar water over the apple dumplings in the baking dish. Then, pour melted butter over the dumplings.
4. Mix together ground cinnamon and the 1/4 cup sugar in a small bowl. Sprinkle evenly over the apple dumplings
5. Bake at 350℉ for 30-35 minutes.
6. Serve warm.

TRACEY'S NOTES:

1. You can also use a 12-ounce can of Sprite or other lemon-lime soda instead of the sugar-water, if you'd like. Diet soda also works just fine.
2. Add a dollop of whipped cream or scoop of vanilla ice cream when serving if you’d like. Both are super tasty with the warm dumplings.

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