homemade apple dumplings

How To Make homemade apple dumplings

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  Step 1
  The very first thing we're going to do is get the sauce made that's poured over the dumplings. It needs to cool before it's poured. Get your sauce ingredients together and heat on the stove until the butter melts. Then I let it come to a boil for a minute or two to thicken it a bit. It will be the consistency of simple syrup and thicken more in the baking process.
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  Step 2
  Making the dough: Measure the shortening out and put it into the freezer until you have the rest of the dry ingredients together. It'll be easier to cut into the flour when it's very cold. Cut the shortening into the flour mixture with a pastry blender. Then add the milk to the mix all at once.
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  Step 3
  Mix the dough with a fork just until it forms a ball. The dough will be very soft.
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  Step 4
  Peel and core your apples. Cut the cold butter into chunks and mix cinnamon and sugar in a small bowl.
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  Step 5
  Flour your board. You can roll the dough out into one big piece and cut individual patches for the apples to sit on. I take the dough and divide it into 6 equal portions and roll them out individually.
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  Step 6
  Place your peeled and cored apple in the center of the dough. Put enough butter into the hole of the apple to fill it (3/4 - 1 Tbsp per apple).
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  Step 7
  Sprinkle sugar (be generous) over the apple, then sprinkle cinnamon on top. I've never measured the sugar or cinnamon out, I just sprinkle.
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  Step 8
  Wrap the dough around the apple until it's completely covered and looks like a ball. I take it in my hands like a ball and mold it and seal any opening, the dough is very easy to work with. Check the bottom and top of the apple to make sure there is enough dough at those points so none of the butter, sugar, and cinnamon can leak out. I decorated the dumplings with the scraps of dough that were left by making leaves and a stem for the apples.
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  Step 9
  Put your dumplings in a 13x9 inch pan and space them about an inch apart. Pour the sauce over each of the apples. Then sprinkle each dumpling with sugar.
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  Step 10
  Bake in a preheated 375-degree oven for 35 minutes.
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  Step 11
  When the dumplings come out of the oven, spoon sauce from the bottom of the pan over the dumplings. In our house we eat the dumplings warm with a little milk poured over them or with a scoop of ice cream. The apples. the sauce, the dough, the cinnamon... it's so GOOD! I hope you love these as much as we do!
• Step 12
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