To make these puppies, you just wrap crescent roll dough around slices of apple, pour a mixture of melted butter and sugar over them, empty out some Mountain Dew from the can on top of that, sprinkle with cinnamon, and bake. And ta-da! You’ve got yourself a crowd-pleasing dessert.
With such little effort for a praise-worthy dessert, this recipe has definitely got me rethinking all my complicated dessert recipes. What’s the point in laboring in the kitchen for hours if something semi-homemade does the job?
I’ll definitely be making these again. Perhaps a cream cheese and berry filling would be pretty good too. Or maybe peaches …
If you are making these ahead of time, after baking, pour out as much of the sauce that’s in the pan (there will be quite a bit) and save it in a separate container. This will keep the dumplings from getting soggy. When you’re ready to serve, warm the dumplings in the oven for a few minutes and warm the sauce in the microwave. Serve it all with scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.
1 large apple {I used a Fuji- any apple will do, tart is better}
1 can Pillsbury Crescent dough
1/2 cup butter
2/3 cups sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup or 6 oz. 7-Up or equivalent {half the can}
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8×8 baking dish.
Cut each apple into 8-10 wedges.
Slice the apple skin off as well and set aside.
Separate the crescent roll dough into triangles.
Roll each apple wedge in crescent roll dough starting at the wide end.
Pinch to seal and cover apple and place in the baking dish. {This is easier if you first pat the apple wedge dry, then wrap dough around it.}
Melt butter in a small saucepan and stir in the sugar and cinnamon. Heat, whisking to combine.
The mixture will slowly combine and thicken. When it’s thickened, remove from heat and add vanilla.
Pour cinnamon mixture over the apple dumplings. Pour soda over the dumplings. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown!!!
Apple dumpling recipe using crescent rolls.
Says one apple but uses apples in instructions.
How many as apples do I need? Thanks
Recipe begins with one apple. When you cut it into wedges it becomes appleS!
Still one Apple !
It seems to be 1 apple wedge per crescent.
I was wondering can you use apple pie filling
I used canned apple pie filling
it looks good and mouth worthy um um
I would us a quarter of an apple, a slice of 8 10 from an apple, is not a very big roll up, plus you have a whole piece of crescent roll !to use !
Have you ever tried sweet potatoe dumplings ?? Made the same way but I DID NOT use the Mt Dew. If you like sweet potatoes, you will live these.
Nancy send the sweet potatoes recipe
What about adding the apples to the butter sugar cinnamon mixture and placing a wedge in each crescent roll?
Same recipe, different site says don’t pour soda on dumplings only around them. Does anyone know which is better.?
I use 2 Granny Smith apples and quarter them, then wrap in the crescent roll. Works perfect for the 8 crescent rolls. I sometimes put a few raisins in the butter sugar mixture.
When using a quarter of an Apple, does the Apple get good and done?
I use this for all fruit but uo use a lot more fruit than it call for blackberries blueberries peaches apples but a lot more than 1 apple the more the better
We don’t have crescent rolls so could I use pastry instead