Pick pastry to serve to your guests. Wrapped around tart apples and a cranberry sauce, pastry dumplings are a dessert everyone loves.
Cranberry Apple Dumplings with Crimson Sauce
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 60 min
- Servings 4
- Ingredients 12
Ingredients
Sauce
- 1 can (16 ounces) whole berry cranberry sauce
- 1/4 cup orange juice or water
- 2 tablespoons red cinnamon candies
Pastry
- 1 cup plus 1 tablespoon shortening
- 3 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 to 7 tablespoons cold water
Apples
- 4 small cooking apples (each about 3 inches in diameter), peeled and cored
- 4 teaspoons sugar
- 1 egg, slightly beaten
- Additional sugar, if desired
- Fresh mint leaves, if desired
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F. Lightly grease bottom of jelly roll pan, 15 1/2x10 1/2x1 inch, or large cookie sheet with shortening. In 1-quart saucepan, heat cranberry sauce, orange juice and candies over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture is hot and candies are melted; remove from heat.
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Step2In medium bowl, cut shortening into flour and salt, using pastry blender or crisscrossing 2 knives, until particles are size of small peas. Sprinkle with cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with fork until all flour is moistened and pastry almost cleans side of bowl (1 to 2 teaspoons more water can be added if necessary). Roll pastry into rectangle, 18x16 inches. Cut pastry into four 8-inch squares, using pastry cutter or knife. Cut leaves from remaining 2-inch piece of pastry, using small leaf-shape cutter, pastry cutter or knife.
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Step3Place apple on each pastry square. Spoon 1 tablespoon cranberry sauce mixture into center of each apple. Sprinkle each apple with 1 teaspoon of the sugar. Moisten corners of pastry squares. Bring 2 opposite corners of pastry up over apple; pinch to seal. Repeat with remaining corners; pinch edges of pastry to seal. Decorate with pastry leaves. Place dumplings in pan. Brush with egg; sprinkle with additional sugar.
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Step4Bake about 30 minutes or until crust is golden brown and apples are tender. Garnish each dumpling with mint leaf. Serve warm with remaining sauce mixture.
Nutrition
875
Calories
43g
Total Fat
8g
Protein
119g
Total Carbohydrate
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 875
- Calories from Fat
- 385
- Total Fat
- 43g
- 0%
- Saturated Fat
- 11g
- 0%
- Cholesterol
- 55mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 340mg
- 0%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 119g
- 0%
- Dietary Fiber
- 5g
- 0%
- Protein
- 8g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 8%
- 8%
- Calcium
- 2%
- 2%
- Iron
- 18%
- 18%
Exchanges:
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