When life hands you Lemons, add Lime and make dumplings…

I found this recipe in the the March-April 2009 Scouting magazine. It was the Grand Prize winner of the Great Tastes in Camp Cooking Contest.
Submitted by Martin A. Pessink this recipe is for a Dutch oven but can also be made in the oven.

Lemon-Lime Soda Apple Dumplings

2 large Granny Smith apples
1 12 ounce can of lemon-lime soda
2 8-ounce cans of refrigerated crescent rolls
1 stick of butter
1 cup of sugar
1 Tablespoon cinnamon

1. If you use a Dutch oven large enough to accommodate all apples in one layer becasue they will rise /expand when cooking.
2. Cut each apple into eight pieces. Wrap each piece in one crescent roll.
3. Melt 1 stick of butter in the bottom of the Dutch oven and roll each piece in the melted butter before placing them in the bottom of the pan
4. Mix cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle the mixture over all the apple pieces ( mixing the sugar rather then just dusting the tops better incorporates the cinnamon flavor) carefully add the soda so as not to wash away sugar from the dumplings.
5. Based on oven size, adjust the amount of briquettes on top and bottom and bake until dumplings turn golden brown. ( In conventional oven about 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

NOTE: Usually whenever I make a new recipe, I come up with a little tip I can share with others.. In this recipe, I mixed the cinnamon and sugar together and tossed the apples in the mixture before rolling them in the crescent rolls.. I saved a portion to sprinkle on the top.. That way the cinnamon mixture was through out the entire dish… Either way it will be great…

Enjoy!