Recipe: Baked Apple Dumplings

Recipe Post!

I warned you guys! First up is apples smothered in cinnamon and sugar, wrapped in a sweet dough, baked and served with reduced syrup from the baking juices. I last made this for eD Sells (no, that is not misspelled) when he was staying with us. I mostly remember being deeply unhappy at the solidity of the pasty shells, then burning my tongue to try it when everyone else tried to convince me they were delicious.

I'm always the worst critic when it comes to my cooking, so I will generally comment both on how I think it could be improved and how everyone else viewed it.

On to the noms!

Baked Apple Dumplings

2½ cups plain flour

½ t salt

3t baking powder

50g butter

1 cup milk

5 medium sized Granny Smith apples, peeled and cored

1 cup sugar

1 cup hot water

cinnamon to taste

• Preheat oven to 190°C

• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl, mix together.

• Rub in butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

• Slowly add milk while mixing until a dough forms.

• Knead the dough a few times, then cut into 5 equal pieces and leave to rest while preparing apples.

• Shape each dough piece into a ball then roll out into 20cm squares.

• Place a apple in the centre of each dough piece along with 1t of the sugar and a sprinkle of cinnamon.

• Wet the edges of the pastry and fold around each apple, make sure there are no holes.

• Heat the remaining sugar and water over low heat until the sugar is fully dissolved i.e. can no longer be seen.

• Place the apples in a oven dish and pour the sugar syrup over the top.

• Bake for 45 minutes, or until dumplings are golden and delicious.

These dumplings are great served with vanilla icecream, but beware as they can still be quite hot even when the outside has cooled.

As I found out first hand.

Giveaway entry - Studio Fludd

I'd like to introduce you peeps to Studio Fludd, a craft group who love their geometric designs.

Imaginative Bloom are holding a giveaway for some of the studio's goods, the brilliant people that they are, and this quote from Studio Fludd is shamelessly stolen from them:

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To enter the giveaway, you have to post a link to Studio Fludd somewhere, for me that is here.
Go look, marvel! Buy! Share! And perhaps even enter yourselves.

Cheerio,
Tamara

Well, I've rediscovered Blogger.

And I can't exactly say I am inspired, but I do have a lot of recipes and need somewhere to store and share them so that my family can use them now I've moved out.

Me update: I'm now studying as a first year student at Otago University in Dunedin, Otago under a Bachelor of Science, Majoring in Human Nutrition. I've become a frugal fanatic with a love of being spoilt, such is the mindset of a student.

I'll be mainly using this blog for recipes, showing off my crafting abilities, linking to cool websites and for posting the occasional thing I can't put on facebook, due to my young cousins and older relatives being on there.

Get ready for spamming, lots of spamming.