Easy Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings with Buttery Soda Sauce
Make classic, comforting apple dumplings quickly using refrigerated crescent rolls and a sweet, fizzy sauce. These tender pastries wrap warm, spiced apples for a perfect fall or holiday dessert.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 35 min
- Total Time: 50 min
- Yield: 8 servings 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegetarian
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 medium baking apples (like Granny Smith or Honeycrisp)
- 1 can (8 count) refrigerated crescent roll dough
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 1 cup lemon-lime soda or Mountain Dew
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Lightly grease a 9×13 inch baking dish.
- Peel, core, and cut each apple into 8 equal wedges.
- In a small bowl, mix the granulated sugar and cinnamon together. This is your cinnamon sugar filling.
- Unroll the crescent roll dough. Separate the triangles. Do not separate the perforations.
- Place a few apple wedges on the wide end of a crescent triangle. Sprinkle the apples with some of the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Roll the dough up around the apples, starting from the wide end, to fully enclose the apples. Pinch the seams closed to seal.
- Place the wrapped apple dumplings seam-side down in the prepared baking dish.
- Scatter the remaining pieces of butter over the top of the dumplings.
- Pour the soda evenly over the dumplings and butter. Sprinkle any remaining cinnamon sugar over everything.
- Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the crescent rolls are golden brown and the sauce is bubbly.
- Carefully remove the dish from the oven. Stir in the vanilla extract into the sauce in the pan.
- Let the apple dumplings cool slightly before serving warm. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream if desired.
Notes
- For a richer sauce, substitute brown sugar for the granulated sugar in the sauce mixture, or use a mix of both.
- If you do not have lemon-lime soda, use ginger ale or even water mixed with a teaspoon of lemon juice.
- For a homemade crust, use your favorite flaky pastry dough recipe instead of crescent rolls.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 dumpling
- Calories: 350
- Sugar: 45g
- Sodium: 280mg
- Fat: 18g
- Saturated Fat: 10g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 48g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 25mg