This easy-to-make Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings with Sprite is a fall dessert that is perfect for a quick treat, after-dinner dessert, or a dessert at your Thanksgiving dinner. Apples rolled in crescent dough, covered in caramel sauce, and then poured Sprite to make an unbelievably buttery sauce and delicious dessert.
Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings with Sprite
Flaky crescent rolls filled with a tender apple slice and baked in a buttery caramel sauce.
What I love about this recipe:
- it’s fall comfort food that is so easy to make
- a hit with everyone
- tender apples in a flaky crust that reminds me of a pie or cobbler
- an easy recipe to prepare for the holidays – no pie is necessary
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FAQs
Make-Ahead and Storage:
Can I make Cresent Roll Apple Dumplings ahead of time?
Yes. You can partially make this recipe a few days in advance by rolling apples in triangle crescent dough and placing them onto a buttered baking dish. Cover the dish and store it in the fridge. About 45 minutes to an hour before you are ready to serve, pour caramel sauce and Sprite and bake.
Storing Leftovers: Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator
Reheating Leftovers: Reheat leftovers either on a plate in the microwave until heated through or the best method – in the oven covered with foil at 350 degrees for 5-10 minutes
What are the Best Apples used in Baking Pies, and Apple Dumplings?
- Granny Smith
- Honeycrisp
- Jonagold
Tips and Tricks:
- Be sure to only pour the caramel sauce directly onto the dumplings. The Sprite should go on the bottom of the baking pan in between the dumplings
- for a shortcut method – Use a device that quickly cores and slices the apples into wedges
- serve apple dumplings with whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream
Are you ready to make this delicious dessert? Let’s make sure you have everything you’ll need…
Ingredients:
- Granny Smith apples – these are my preferred apples for this recipe. They bake up tender and hold their texture. Their tart flavor lends well to this dessert
- refrigerated crescent roll dough triangles – You can get original or flaky
- brown sugar – I used light brown sugar, but if you only have dark – that is fine too
- vanilla extract – I always use pure vanilla extract, but if all you have is imitation, that is perfectly fine
- Sprite – or a similar soda like 7Up, generic lemon-lime soda, or Mountain Dew
How do you make Apple Dumplings?
- preheat the oven to 350 degrees and butter a 9×11 baking pan
- peel, core, and slice apples into 8 equal apple wedges
- unroll your crescent dough triangles
- place an apple slice onto the bottom (wider) portion of the triangle and roll it up
- set it seam side down onto the baking dish
- repeat until you have 2 dozen
- in a small saucepan, melt butter
- add brown sugar and extract – mix in
- pour over crescent rolls
- now, pour soda in between crescent rolls
- bake
- serve warm
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Recipe
Crescent Roll Apple Dumplings with Sprite
Ingredients
- 2 large Granny Smith apples
- 16 oz. crescent roll dough (2 cans)
- ½ cup unsalted butter – 1 whole stick
- 1&1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup Sprite or other similar soda
Instructions
- preheat your oven to 350 degrees and butter a 9×11 baking dish
- peel, core, and slice apples into 8 equal wedges
- unroll crescent dough and place an apple slice near the bottom (wide) section
- roll the crescent dough around the apple slice and place seam side down onto the buttered baking dish
- repeat with the rest of the apples and triangle dough pieces
- in a small saucepan, heat the butter until melted
- add the brown sugar and stir until dissolved
- Add vanilla extract and stir in
- pour sauce over crescent rolls – covering every part of them
- pour the Sprite in between rolls – careful to avoid the dough
- Bake for 35-40 minutes
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Notes
nutrition facts are only an estimate
Can I make Cresent Roll Apple Dumplings ahead of time?
Yes. You can partially make this recipe a few days in advance by rolling apples in triangle crescent dough and placing them onto a buttered baking dish. Cover the dish and store it in the fridge. About 45 minutes to an hour before you are ready to serve, pour caramel sauce and Sprite and bake. Storing Leftovers: Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator Reheating Leftovers: Reheat leftovers either on a plate in the microwave until heated through or the best method – in the oven covered with foil at 350 degrees for 5-10 minutesWhat are the Best Apples used in Baking Pies, and Apple Dumplings?
- Granny Smith
- Honeycrisp
- Jonagold
Tips and Tricks:
- Be sure to only pour the caramel sauce directly onto the dumplings. The Sprite should go on the bottom of the baking pan in between the dumplings
- for a shortcut method – Use a device that quickly cores and sliced the apples into wedges
- serve apple dumplings with whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream
Nutrition
We use truvia brown sugar and zero sprite so my type 2 diabetes husband can have it too it has become a regular addiction to out occasional deserts
Those are great substitutions! Thank you for letting me know about them. I will add them as ideas for people that need to be careful with their sugar for health reasons.