Apple Dumpling Pastry Recipe
Easy to make wrapped apple. Golden Delicious of other sweet baking apple will make the best pastry. Microwaving the apple for a few seconds will pre bake the apple ensuring that after it is wrapped it will bake fully done.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 25-30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 -60 minutes
- Yield: 4 apple pastries 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Scale
½ package-17.3 ounce package Puff Pastry Sheets-thawed
4 Golden Delicious Apples- peeled & partially cored
1-cup light brown sugar, packed
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ cup pecans, chopped fine
¼ cup currents, optional
2 tablespoons butter, melted
Egg Wash
1 egg + 1 tablespoon water
Garnish: Cinnamon Vanilla ice cream drizzled with caramel sauce
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 F. Spray 9 x 13” baking pan and line with parchment paper.
- Peel and partially core apples, leave bottom of inside core of apple intact.
- Mix together brown sugar and cinnamon. Roll peeled apple in sugar mixture.
- Place on microwave safe plate and microwave for 3 minutes on high.
- Remove from microwave and roll apple in mixture again.
- Add to remaining sugar cinnamon mixture chopped pecans & currents.
- Fill core of apples with pecan sugar mixture.
- Drizzle apples with melted butter.
- Place in freezer for 5 -7 minutes before wrapping with pastry.
- Unfold the pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface.
- Roll the pastry sheet into a 10×9-inch rectangle.
- Cut into 9 (1×10-inch) strips. Press the ends of 2 pastry strips together to make 1 (1×20-inch) strip. Repeat with 6 of the remaining pastry strips.
- Cut 8 leaf shapes and stems from the last pastry strip.
- Starting at the bottom of the apple, wind 1 pastry strip around 1 apple, slightly overlapping the edges of the pastry.
- Repeat with the remaining pastry strips and apples.
- Garnish each apple with 2 pastry leaves and stem.
- Whisk together egg and water for egg wash. Brush the pastries with the egg wash
- Place the pastries on baking sheet.
- Bake 25 -30 minutes until pastries are golden brown.
- Serve with ice cream and caramel sauce.
Notes
Recipe was inspired and adapted from Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry.
Find it online: https://lizbushong.com/apple-dumpling-pastry-recipe/
