Name: Apple dumpling puddle pudding
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 75g butter; 250g light brown soft sugar; 3 tbsp golden syrup; 6 dessert apples (about 750g), peeled, cored and sliced; double or clotted cream to serve; 200g self-raising flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 2 tbsp caster sugar; pinch ground cinnamon; 100g cold butter cubed; 6 tbsp milk

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Apple dumpling puddle pudding

Apple dumpling puddle pudding

Cassie Best

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Serves 6

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 45 mins

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Try these wonderfully light, fluffy dumplings baked in a pool of salted caramel apples – what’s not to love? The ultimate comfort dessert for colder weather

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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75g butter
250g light brown soft sugar
3 tbsp golden syrup
6 dessert apples

(about 750g), peeled, cored and sliced
double or clotted cream

to serve

For the dumplings

200g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp caster sugar
pinch ground cinnamon
100g cold butter

cubed
6 tbsp milk

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Nutrition: Per serving

kcal763
fat26g
saturates16g
carbs127g
sugars101g
fibre3g
protein5g
salt1.2g

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Melt the butter, sugar and golden syrup in a pan with 100ml water. Bring to a simmer, add the apples and cook for 10-15 mins until they’re starting to soften – it will be quite saucy. Add a generous pinch of salt, taste and check the balance, adding more if you like. If your pan isn’t ovenproof, pour into a baking dish about 20 x 30cm, or two smaller ones.
step 2

Tip the flour into a bowl. Mix with the baking powder, sugar, cinnamon and a pinch of salt. Rub the butter into the mixture with your fingertips until it resembles damp sand. Add the milk, stir with a cutlery knife until it starts to clump together, then use your hands to bring the dough together, picking up any flaky bits. Don’t overwork it or your dumplings will be heavy. Divide into 12 golf ball-sized pieces and roll into dumplings. Arrange over the apples, leaving little gaps here and there. Sprinkle with a little extra sugar (brown or caster) and bake for 25 mins until the dumplings are puffed up and golden. Let rest for a few mins and serve with plenty of cold cream.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2018

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