Tasty Tuesday: An Apple A Day

So today’s recipe has two things about it that aren’t super common in my kitchen:

1. This dessert is really, really unhealthy. While my general attitude about dessert is “go hard or go home,” aka if you are going to make dessert, you might as well make it full of yumminess. But even this one pushes me to the edge of that rule. Needless to say, I don’t make this one very often!
2. I don’t eat this recipe. I’ve never even had a bite of it. Why? Because I hate apples. What? You didn’t hear me? Well, I hate apples. Okay, I admit it. I hate them in all of their forms, juice, sauce, pie, caramelized, candied, jellied, buttered, or au natural. However, I can vouch for the deliciousness of this recipe by the way people respond when they eat it. It’s kind of embarrassing. Preacher Man makes moaning sounds and then hides the pan from the kids.

Here is what you need to make Apple Dumplings:

2 cans crescent rolls

2 Granny Smith apples cut in 8^th’s

2 sticks butter (Don’t say I didn’t warn you!)

1 ½ cups sugar (Ditto!)

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 (12 oz) can Mt. Dew (It’s cheaper to buy a 2 Liter of Mt Dew than a single can. Plus a single can was hard for me to find, so I bought a 2 Liter and used what I needed of it. I think Preacher Man downed the rest.)

First, melt butter, mix in sugar and cinnamon.

 Pour ½ cup of butter mixture in a 13x9 inch pan.

Roll each apple slice in one crescent roll so the apple is completely covered and place in pan.

Pour rest of butter mixture over dumplings.

Cover with Mt. Dew.

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN UNTIL DONE!!!

While I can’t vouch for taste (everyone who eats them assures me that they are wonderful!), I can say that the smell of this baking in your oven is fabulous!

Apple Dumplings

2 cans crescent rolls

2 Granny Smith apples cut in 8^th’s

2 sticks of butter

1 ½ cups sugar

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 (12 oz.) can of Mt. Dew

Roll each apple slice in one crescent roll. Melt butter and mix in sugar and cinnamon. Pour ½ cup of butter mixture in a 13x9 inch pan. Place rolled up apples in it. Pour rest of butter mixture over dumplings. Cover with Mt. Dew.  Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Don’t open the oven door until done.

We enjoyed this recipe while beginning our world geography study after we read How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World. All of the helpers in my photographs were Chipette, Magpie, Miss Jane, and Miss Elizabeth.

And my globetrotting girls lapped this stuff up in the tree house,

Chelli