Second Attempt At Baking Apple Dumplings

First attempt at baking the Country Apple Dumplings ended with a failure sebab dough aku refused to rise. The mistake was, susu yang terlalu panas. Itu akibat dari multi tasking sambil panaskan susu. Moral of the story is, avoid multi tasking semasa memasak.

Mula2, pagi semalam, aku dah decide takmau baking sebab still frust dengan dough yang tak jadi tu. Tapikan, lepas hantar the girls to KAFA, Shariff and Raina dah tido, rasa macam boring pulak. Kalau ikutkan hati, nak je aku tido dengan Shariff and Raina, but I hate sleeping siang hari unless terlalu penat. Then tiba2 je, aku dah ada kat dapur, and tangan dah sukat gandum.

Tak sampai 15 minit, dough for my crescent rolls pun dah siap untuk dibiarkan bertapa selama sejam. The apple dumplings recipe calls for frozen crescent rolls, tapi aku nak cuba jugak buat rolls sendiri untuk kurangkan kandungan lemak and to make it as healthy as possible (Of course cannot be healthy la kan sebab involved butter). 


Setelah menggoogle dan study few crescent rolls recipes, aku ended up with the one dalam allrecipes.com. Buat crescent rolls ni takde la leceh mana, cuma kena tekun je sikit. I made few changes to the original recipe, to make it easier for me to prepare the dough. By the way, hubby still tak bagi consent for Iffah to go to Bandung. Huhuhuhu.. Iffah is so sad. Macam mana aku nak pujuk hubby?? Ishk! geram betul la kat dia! Rasa nak cubit2 je.

 Country Apple Dumplings

 Too irresistible! 

 Mula2 plan nak makan 1/2 je, tapi lepas dah rasa 1/2, takleh stop! Habis hancus dietku!

Sebelum dibakar. Aku tengok youtube on how to lipat/gulung the rolls. This picture was taken before aku siram the crescent rolls with butter sugar mixture and mountain dew. 

Frozen Crescent Rolls

Adapted from allrecipes.com

Ingredients

1 cups milk - luke warm

1/2 tbs dry yeast

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

2 teaspoons salt

3 eggs, beaten

4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, divided

1/4 cup butter, melted (for brushing dough)

Directions

1. In large mixing bowl, add the dry ingredient ie flour, yeast, salt, sugar, whisk it. Make a whole in the middle, add the wet ingredients ie eggs, milk and butter.

2. Use a dough hook, knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes.

3. Place dough in greased bowl; cover and let rise in warm place until doubled, about 1-1/2 hours. Punch the dough, and divide dough into 2 parts.

4. Flatten each into a circle about 12 inches in diameter and brush with melted butter. 

5. Cut each circle into 8 triangles.

Country Apple Dumplings
Adapted from allrecipes.com

Ingredients
2 large Granny Smith apples, peeled and cored
crescent roll dough (the one that I made)
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup coarse sugar (next time, I'll omit this coz I still find it a bit sweet for my taste)
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle Mountain Dew

Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.
2. Cut each apple into 8 wedges and set aside. Separate the crescent roll dough into triangles.
3. Roll each apple wedge in crescent roll dough starting at the widest end.
4. Pinch to seal and place in the baking dish. Leave it for about 1/2 hour.
5. Melt butter in a small saucepan and stir in the sugar and cinnamon, until thickened. Pour over the apple dumplings. Pour Mountain Dew™ over the dumplings.
6. Bake for 35 to 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.