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October 3, 2016

Old Fashioned Apple Dumplings Recipe

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DOLE Fruit N’ Spice

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My kids go through fruit like crazy and I try to get more and more of it into my diet, too. I admit I’m not great at that but I have gotten better thanks to DOLE Fruit n’ Spice. Fruit n’ Spice are brand new products on the market and you’ll find them in  your freezer section.

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I was introduced to this product at the Summer Fancy Food Show in NYC this past summer and immediately loved it. This makes healthy snacking tasty and SO easy! 

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DOLE Fruit n’ Spice comes in three varieties:

  • Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks
  • Cinnamon Apple Slices
  • Chili Lime Mango Chunks

They are all natural, real frozen fruit combined with chef-inspired spice blends. And they’re so full of flavor! I love this spin on making fruit fun to eat.

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I was able to try all three varieties. The Cinnamon Apple Slices are so yummy. They remind me of an apple pie (or apple dumplings as you’ll see!).  The Chili Lime Mango Chunks have a bit of heat to them and my first thought was that they’d be awesome in a salsa recipe.

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My hands-down favorite are the Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks. These are SO good. I pour a bunch into a ramekin and snack on them, even half frozen. They are perfectly flavored and sweet and fresh. I love them.

DOLE Fruit ‘n Spice are so versatile, too. As I mentioned, they make healthy snacking really easy, but they’re also delicious in so many recipes. If you like smoothies, these are a great way to kick them up with some new flavors. And if you like dessert, well…I gotcha covered.

Old Fashioned Apple Dumplings Recipe

Fall screams for all things apple and apple dumplings have to be my favorite apple dessert. We have a little farm show every October in my town and there’s a food stand there that sells them and we go over just to get one every year. Sooo good!

This Old Fashioned Apple Dumplings Recipe is just what you need on a chilly day. It's a perfect fall dessert recipe (best served with ice cream!).

The DOLE Fruit N’ Spice Cinnamon Apple Slices are perfect for making Old Fashioned Apple Dumplings a bit easier (no apples to chop!) and just as delicious.

This Old Fashioned Apple Dumplings Recipe is just what you need on a chilly day. It's a perfect fall dessert recipe (best served with ice cream!).

I mean…. Just look at that. This is a pan of beauty right here.

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An apple dumpling is best served warm with vanilla ice cream. (They charge extra for the ice cream at the farm show, and I pay it!)  Here’s the recipe so you can make these at home. We’ll probably still go to the farm show but I might just save $5 this year.  😉

Yield: 6

Old Fashioned Apple Dumplings Recipe

This Old Fashioned Apple Dumplings Recipe is just what you need on a chilly day. It's a perfect fall dessert recipe (best served with ice cream!).
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • One recipe for double crust pie crust
  • 2 bags of Dole Fruit n' Spice Cinnamon Apple Slices
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 3 cups water
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Butter a 9x13 baking dish.

Dump the apples from bags into a large bowl and separate any that are frozen together.

Use a muffin tin and arrange them in the shape of an apple in 6 muffin cups. Set aside.

Prepare the dough. If you are using store bought dough, use one sheet which will make 3 dumplings. If you are using the recipe above, use one of the two balls of dough, which makes 3 dumplings. Roll dough into a large rectangle on a lightly floured surface. Cut into 3 pieces. Repeat with the other half of your dough so you have a total of 6 pieces.

Cut butter into 8 pieces. Set aside.

In a small dish, combine the cinnamon and nutmeg.

Time to assemble the dumplings: Place one piece of butter down the center of one of your apple groups in the muffin tin. Pick up all of the apples as a group, and place them in the center of one of the pieces of dough.

Use about 1/6 of your brown sugar (just eyeball it - you're trying to divide that 1/2 cup of brown sugar evenly between 6 dumplings) and sprinkle over top of the apples, pushing some around the bottom of the apples.

Sprinkle about 1/6 of your cinnamon and nutmeg mixture over the top of the apples (eyeball it again, you just want to try to evenly divide this mixture between the 6 dumplings).

Wrap the apple with the dough by joining opposite corners with slightly wet fingers.

Pinch to completely seal the apples in the dough. Place in the prepared baking dish.

Repeat these steps with the remaining ingredients until you have 6 dumplings.

In a saucepan, combine water, sugar, vanilla, and remaining 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat.

Boil for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and carefully pour over dumplings.

Bake in preheated oven for 50-60 minutes.

To serve, place dumpling in a dessert bowl and pour sauce over the top. Great with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

Notes

These dumplings are even better the next day! After they're cooled the sauce thickens up nicely and they're delicious reheated. Just don't forget the ice cream!

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When I say arrange the apple slices in a muffin tin in the shape of an apple, really what we’re doing is just making it easy to grab them and get them inside of the dough. If you place them vertically and stacked side by side in a cup, it holds them in place and simplifies the process. The muffin tin is just a handy way to ‘hold’ your apples.

This Old Fashioned Apple Dumplings Recipe is just what you need on a chilly day. It's a perfect fall dessert recipe (best served with ice cream!).

These are so, so good. Just full of flavor and absolute comfort food at its best.

This Old Fashioned Apple Dumplings Recipe is just what you need on a chilly day. It's a perfect fall dessert recipe (best served with ice cream!).

Yum! There’s one of the delicious DOLE Fruit n’ Spice apples.  I think I’ll be making these again VERY soon. Happy fall y’all!

You can learn more about DOLE Fruit n’ Spice on their website, and by following along on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Some great foodie ideas on their Pinterest page, too!

The Giveaway

The generous folks at DOLE are offering my readers a great giveaway! One of you will win a DOLE Fruit n’ Spice prize pack that includes an assortment of flavors! This giveaway is open to US residents only, ages 18+, and will end at 11:59pm ET on October 15, 2016.

One winner per household, email address, or home address. If you have won this prize on another blog you are ineligible to win again. Winner must have a U.S.-based address to receive the prize. 

Good luck! 

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Lindsay is the Owner/Editor and Content Creator at See Mom Click, a family travel and lifestyle blog based in Central Pennsylvania. She is a wife and mom of two kids and a handful of fur babies.

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Comments

  1. Dana Rodriguez says

    October 3, 2016 at 15:26

    Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks look so good!

    Reply
  2. Jessica To says

    October 3, 2016 at 15:33

    I want to try the Cinnamon Apple Slices. I love apple dumplings!

    Reply
  3. Kris I. says

    October 3, 2016 at 18:37

    I want to try the cinnamon apple slices.

    Reply
  4. Candie L says

    October 3, 2016 at 19:50

    My family loves anything to do with pineapples. Thank you

    Reply
  5. Susan P. says

    October 3, 2016 at 19:56

    I’d like to try the Cinnamon Apple flavor.

    Reply
  6. Joan Kubes says

    October 3, 2016 at 19:57

    I’d like to try the Cinnamon Apple Slices. I want to make a nice apple crumble.

    Reply
  7. elizabeth miller says

    October 3, 2016 at 20:00

    I would like to try the Cinnamon Apple chunks the most. I think my daughter would really love these.

    Reply
  8. Mary W says

    October 3, 2016 at 20:08

    I would like to try the Chili Lime Mango.

    Reply
  9. Rust says

    October 3, 2016 at 21:02

    Ooh, the cinnamon apple slices are just to my taste!

    Reply
  10. Leigh Anne Borders says

    October 3, 2016 at 21:08

    I would love to try the cinnamon apple spices.

    Reply
  11. Marcia Goss says

    October 3, 2016 at 21:38

    I want to try the Honey Lime Pineapple.

    Reply
  12. Amy C. says

    October 3, 2016 at 21:42

    The Cinnamon Apple slices sound like a flavor my family would enjoy.

    Reply
  13. Edye says

    October 3, 2016 at 22:41

    I’d love to try the apple cinnamon slices. Yum! 🙂

    Reply
  14. Fiona N says

    October 3, 2016 at 23:22

    I would love to try the Fruit n’ Spice Cinnamon Apple Slices flavor
    Thank You for the chance

    Reply
  15. Jackie says

    October 3, 2016 at 23:27

    I’d love to try the Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks first.
    Thank you!

    Reply
  16. Richard Brandt says

    October 4, 2016 at 00:49

    I want to try the chile lime mango chunks. Ai caramba!l

    Reply
  17. Jennifer Figueroa says

    October 4, 2016 at 06:01

    I would like to try the Cinnamon apple .

    Reply
  18. Maralea says

    October 4, 2016 at 06:26

    Cinnamon Apple is the one we would like.

    Reply
  19. Lauren says

    October 4, 2016 at 09:12

    I would like to try the Cinnamon Apple Slices.

    Reply
  20. Julie Lundstrom says

    October 4, 2016 at 20:34

    I would like to try the Dole Cinnamon apple slices one.

    Reply
  21. Jennifer Reed says

    October 5, 2016 at 03:02

    The flavor of the Dole Fruit N’ Spice variety I would most like to try is their Pineapple with Honey and Lime. It sounds refreshing.

    Reply
  22. Tiffany S says

    October 5, 2016 at 09:04

    I would love to try the cinnamon apple slices first but they all sound pretty good.

    Reply
  23. Char says

    October 5, 2016 at 11:57

    The fruit and cinnamon is a great recipe, thank you for the great offer!

    Reply
  24. Kristin McCall says

    October 5, 2016 at 13:49

    I would use the honey lime pineapple. It looks so good.

    Reply
  25. chris z says

    October 5, 2016 at 14:48

    i would like to try the Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks

    Reply
  26. Leslie says

    October 5, 2016 at 15:29

    Chili Lime Mango Chunks. Thanks for the chance to win.

    Reply
  27. Jennifer Rote says

    October 5, 2016 at 15:48

    I’d like to try the Dole Fruit n’ Spice Cinnamon Apple Slices the most.

    Reply
  28. Nicole Sender says

    October 5, 2016 at 16:08

    I’d like to try the Fruit n’ Spice Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks.

    Reply
  29. latanya says

    October 5, 2016 at 17:34

    Fruit n’ Spice Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks

    Reply
  30. Cindy Peterson says

    October 5, 2016 at 18:10

    Chili Lime Mango. Yum Reminds me of the roadside stands where you can buy fresh mangos with chili.

    Reply
  31. Liberty says

    October 5, 2016 at 19:32

    I’d try the honey lime pineapple- sounds great!

    Reply
  32. Julie says

    October 6, 2016 at 01:07

    I want to try Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks the most.

    Reply
  33. Betty B. says

    October 6, 2016 at 10:29

    I’m excited to try the honey lime mango chunks to make a salsa!

    Reply
  34. Marty says

    October 6, 2016 at 11:28

    Chili lime mango sounds great. I actually grew up putting lemon and chili powder on all kinds of fruit.

    Reply
  35. jeremy mclaughlin says

    October 6, 2016 at 11:42

    Would like to try the cinnamon apple slices.

    Reply
  36. Rachel says

    October 6, 2016 at 15:55

    I think the chili lime mango chunks look good.

    Reply
  37. Wendy R. says

    October 6, 2016 at 22:31

    Honey Lime Pineapple is the one I would reach for first. 🙂

    Reply
  38. Darlene Carbajal says

    October 6, 2016 at 22:55

    I want to try the Fruit n’ Spice Chili Lime Mango Chunks.

    Reply
  39. Heather Hayes Panjon says

    October 7, 2016 at 04:49

    I Want To Try The Cinnamon Apples.

    Reply
  40. Sarah Hall says

    October 7, 2016 at 15:38

    I would love to try the Cinnamon Apple Slices as I love apple dumplings this time of year.

    Reply
  41. al says

    October 7, 2016 at 23:34

    Cinnamon apple slices would be best.

    Reply
  42. Shannon says

    October 8, 2016 at 00:37

    I want to try the Fruit n’ Spice Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks the most.

    Reply
  43. brittany doerfler says

    October 9, 2016 at 16:02

    i would like to try the fruit n’ spice cinnamon apple slices 🙂

    Reply
  44. Lesley F says

    October 9, 2016 at 22:15

    Honey Lime Pineapple sounds good

    Reply
  45. Laurie Nykaza says

    October 10, 2016 at 00:22

    Cinnamon Apple flavor sounds so good

    Reply
  46. Annette says

    October 10, 2016 at 01:52

    I’d like to try Fruit n’ Spice Chili Lime Mango Chunks.

    Reply
  47. KENNETH OHL says

    October 10, 2016 at 12:47

    Cinnamon Apple flavor sounds great

    Reply
  48. Nickie says

    October 10, 2016 at 15:14

    Cinnamon apple flavor

    Reply
  49. Amanda Morris says

    October 10, 2016 at 16:03

    I would like to try the honey lime pineapple chunks themost.

    Reply
  50. pu ye says

    October 10, 2016 at 16:29

    I would like to try the Chili Lime Mango.

    Reply
  51. Angela Saver says

    October 10, 2016 at 16:36

    I am most excited about the Cinnamon Apple flavor!

    Reply
  52. Nannypanpan says

    October 10, 2016 at 21:03

    I’d like cinnamon apple slices

    Reply
  53. Donna Teller says

    October 11, 2016 at 02:11

    I would definitely most love to try the Cinnamon Apple Slices.

    Reply
  54. kelly g says

    October 11, 2016 at 12:47

    the cinnamon apple slices.

    Reply
  55. Keri Justice says

    October 12, 2016 at 03:04

    I would most like to try the cinnamon apples myself!

    Reply
  56. Tiffany Greene Elliott says

    October 12, 2016 at 09:56

    I would love to try the new Fruit n’ Spice Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks! Thank you!

    Reply
  57. Ashley Wheeler says

    October 12, 2016 at 10:02

    That’s a hard choice. I would say either honey pineapple or cinnamon apple

    Reply
  58. Joni Owada says

    October 12, 2016 at 13:32

    Would love to try the Honey Lime Pineapple!

    Reply
  59. Mita says

    October 12, 2016 at 15:23

    I ‘d like to try the Chili Lime Mango.

    Reply
  60. Heather D says

    October 13, 2016 at 15:32

    The Cinnamon Apple Slices look delicious. My kids would love them too.

    Reply
  61. Steph says

    October 13, 2016 at 16:15

    Cinnamon apple slices!

    Reply
  62. Pat says

    October 13, 2016 at 16:43

    I’d most like to try Cinnamon Apple Slices

    Reply
  63. Grant D says

    October 13, 2016 at 16:49

    Chili Lime Mango for sure

    Reply
  64. Rajee Pandi says

    October 13, 2016 at 21:35

    Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks

    Reply
  65. Jennifer H. says

    October 14, 2016 at 19:49

    I would like Fruit n’ Spice Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks.

    Reply
  66. Geri Sandoval says

    October 15, 2016 at 11:12

    I want to try the Honey Lime Pineapple, sound yummy.

    Reply
  67. Tiffany says

    October 15, 2016 at 12:04

    These dumplings look amazing.. I love how you paired the hot with the cold ice cream. Yum!

    Reply
  68. Jeff j Faulkner says

    October 15, 2016 at 13:21

    cimminon apple slices sound so good!

    Reply
  69. liz lew says

    October 15, 2016 at 19:32

    I am most excited about the Cinnamon Apple flavor!

    Reply
  70. jaimeb says

    October 15, 2016 at 20:39

    The honey lime pineapple chunks look delicious. I would try those first.

    Reply
  71. Anita Jude says

    October 15, 2016 at 21:10

    Cinnamon apple slices

    Reply
  72. Miguel Mendez says

    October 15, 2016 at 22:08

    I’d love to try the Honey Lime Pineapple Chunks!

    Reply
  73. Wendi says

    October 15, 2016 at 23:38

    the cinnamon apple would be the best for me!! Yummy

    Reply

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