Here’s a super easy, crowd-pleasing dessert: Caramel Apple Crescent Roll Dumplings 🥐🍎🍯 — made with store-bought crescent dough, fresh apples, and a rich caramel-butter sauce. They’re warm, gooey, and irresistible!
🍎 Caramel Apple Crescent Roll Dumplings
🧂 Ingredients:
- 2 cans crescent roll dough (8 rolls per can)
- 2 medium apples (Granny Smith or Honeycrisp work great)
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 can (12 oz) lemon-lime soda (like Sprite or 7UP)
- Optional: caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream for serving
👩🍳 Instructions:
1. Preheat Oven & Prep Dish
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
2. Prepare Apples
- Peel and core the apples. Cut each into 8 equal wedges (16 total).
3. Wrap the Apples
- Unroll the crescent dough and separate into triangles.
- Place one apple slice on the wide end of each triangle. Roll up, tucking the sides if you like.
- Place the dumplings seam-side down in the baking dish.
4. Make the Sauce
- In a saucepan, melt butter over medium heat.
- Add brown sugar and cinnamon; stir until combined and bubbly.
- Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
5. Assemble
- Pour the butter-sugar mixture evenly over the dumplings.
- Gently pour the soda around the edges of the pan (not over the top — this creates a gooey caramel sauce as it bakes).
6. Bake
- Bake uncovered for 35–40 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown and the sauce is thick and bubbly.
🍨 Serve:
- Spoon warm dumplings onto plates. Drizzle with caramel sauce and top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream if desired.