Enjoy a taste of warmth and comfort with our Baked Apple Dumplings. Fresh apples nestled in pastry dough, baked to golden perfection, and generously drizzled with salted caramel sauce for a delectable treat that's easy to make and even easier to savor.

A golden brown baked apple dumpling on a cream bowl drizzled with salted caramel rum sauce.

Indulge in the warm, comforting embrace of our delicious Apple Dumplings. This easy recipe takes fresh apples, encases them in a delicate premade pie dough, and sweetened with a cinnamon sugar blend. This easy apple dumpling recipe is baked to a golden brown perfection then generously drizzled with a luscious salted caramel rum sauce, creating a delicious dessert that's sure to steal the show!

One apple dumpling on a plate with salted caramel sauce drizzled over top.

❤️ Why you'll love this Apple Dumplings Recipe

Easy recipe: made with simple ingredients this apple recipe is the perfect fall dessert.

Comfort Food: sweet and tart flavors of apples with a warm, cinnamon-spiced pastry, creating a delectable contrast that's simply irresistible comfort food.

Versatile: the apples are left whole for ease of preparation in this recipe, but you can use apple slices in place of the whole apple, change up the spices by using ginger, nutmeg, or cardamon and brown sugar instead of white sugar.

🥘 Ingredients

Refrigerated pie crust (1 crust): I always use Pillsbury refrigerated crusts, I feel it is the best. No name brands pie crust either seem to fall apart or are too thick.

Fresh apples: choose a firm apple that will still hold it's shape well after baking and not break down into mush. The best apples to use are Cortland, Pink lady, Granny smith or Honeycrisp Apples

Granulated sugar

Ground cinnamon

Butter

Salted Caramel Sauce

Dark rum (optional but adds great flavor!)

Nonstick cooking spray

Peeled and cored apples with an apple peeler and corer next to them.

🔪 How to Assemble Apple Dumplings

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a small baking dish with non stick cooking spray and set aside.
In a small bowl, combine cinnamon and sugar. Set aside.
Roll out pie dough and cut circle in quarters. You may need to roll the dough out a little more depending on the size of your apple. Place whole apples in the center of each section of dough.
Place ½ tablespoon butter in center of each apple and top it off with 1 tablespoon of the cinnamon sugar mixture.
Moisten the edges of the pie crust by dipping your fingers in a little cold water and spreading it around the dough round. Wrap apple in the pie crust, being careful to seal any seams. If you have enough dough left over you can also cut out some cute little leaves and add a stem to the apple.
Place apple dumplings in prepared dish. Sprinkle remaining cinnamon sugar mixture on top of the dough.
Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour or until pie crust becomes golden brown.
Microwave salted caramel sauce in jar according to package instructions. Stir in 1 tablespoon rum (if using).
Drizzle caramel sauce over top of dumpling and serve.

Pie crust ready to roll and smooth out before placing in pie pan.

🥄 Equipment

Small baking dish

Small bowl

Rolling pin

🥫Storage

Refrigerate: store leftover apple dumplings in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to 4 days.

Reheat: warm apple dumplings in the oven or air fryer at 350 degrees until warmed through. They can be reheated in the microwave, but it is not recommended due to the pastry dough.

📖 Variations

Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings: substitute crescent roll dough for the pastry dough using two triangles of crescent rolls per dumpling.

Assembled baked apple dumpling on plate.

💭 Tips

Bring the pie dough to room temperature before rolling out, this will make it easier to work with.
Don't roll the pie dough out too thin, if you do so, you will have difficulty with the pie dough tearing.
Use an apple corer to easily remove the core of the apple.
To easily peel the apples, use an apple peeler or one of these Swiss peelers will do the job.

📚 Related Recipes

Classic Apple Pie

Old-Fashioned Apple Dumplings

The Best Apple Crisp

Apple Cider Donuts

Homemade Pie Crust

🍽 Serve with..

Serve warm with caramel sauce drizzled over top of the dumplings with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

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