Friday, July 1, 2011

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.

8 comments:

  1. Shidah
    Lahhh kesian pulak dak Iffah ni.. why ur hb tak kasi? hmm i teringat waktu sekolah secondary.. teacher buat outing go to malacca.. my parent punya lah against the idea.. i nangis sampai nak keluar air mata darah hahah.. last last i told my teacher to call my parent .. baru lah they all kasi i pergi.. haishh.. i can imagine how ur daughter feel right now.. sure frust..

    Finally ey.. good good.. if once failed sure akan try buat lagi dan lagi sampai jadi.. macam buat macs.. selagi tak sempurna.. selagi tu u pi buat benda tu

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  2. shidah, ko pegi la ngan iffah to bandung.. dah mama ikut tak kan sham tak bagi kot...
    silap2 auntie fid pun nak ikut sekali.. ngeh3

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  3. whn u posted kat FB rasa mcm leceh sgt lah nk buatnya. But tgk d recipe, not bad jgk kan..i mean its kinda simple..erm i shld try buat one of these days, now mmg x boleh stop mkn Cinnamon pull aprt bread tu...ari ni buat lg..:D

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  4. Rima,

    My hubby paranoid sikit. Bila dengar Indonesia, dia dah risau, takut ada rusuhan. I told him, kat Bandung tu, bersepah orang Msia shopping. Furthermore, it's a UN's conference, security sure sangat2 tight. Iffah memang frust giler bila tau abah dia kata tengok dulu.

    Dulu masa I sekolah pun, my dad tak penah bagi ikut rombongan pegi mana2. Dia pun overly protective mcm my hubby. Pening kepala sungguh. maybe iffah kena nangis mcm you nangis dulu kot.. hehe.. baru la hati abah dia cair.

    Mac is something that I dont dare to venture. takut kalau dah buat, takleh stop and meroyan sorang2 kat dapur kalau tak jadi.. hahahah..

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  5. Fidd,

    aku sekarang ada 2 extra bag, shariff and raina. macam mana nak tinggal dia org tu. kesian jugak kat adik aku, mas. tapi, kalau engkau nak pegi, aku pun nak pegi la.. hahahha.. boleh gi shopping sama2 :D

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  6. Rina,

    kalau baca the recipe dalam allrecipes.com, memang rasa leceh. tapi sebab i buat once tak jadi, so i tried using the method which works best for me and alhamdulillah menjadi. memang lepas ni, kalau i buat, i'll just ikut my method. the most important thing is, dumplings tu memang sedap! pull apart bread pun sedap jugak, but u should taste the dumplings! :D

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  7. Shidah
    Tahniah to Iffah .. it is in a way birthday presentlah kan?

    Your hubby belum beri green light lagi eh? Sigh.. I am in the same dilemma. My doter n friends nak ke KK, Sabah come Sept. I dah mula risau tapi syukur mandi basah, tidor lena n makan kenyang, hehe.

    Those dumplings look gorgeous! Untuk I yang 'rajin' nih, macam susah aje.. CS

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  8. CS,

    Thank you. Boleh consider macam la kot, a birthday present for her :D

    My hubby dah cakap ok. Lega sangat2. cuma dia kena mintak cuti dari sekarang coz he's going to chaperone iffah ke sana. hahahha.. ingatkan bila risau, mandi tak basah, makan tak kenyang. kita sama la, kalau risau, mandi mesti basah. kalau tak basah tu sebab tak mandi :D

    you should try the dumplings. sedap!! nak ke? i ingat nak mendumplingkan apple esok :D

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