PEACH DUMPLINGS
Ingredients
2 fresh peaches
8 ounce tube crescent rolls
½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, melted
¾ cup granulated sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, divided use
1 ½ Tablespoons flour
¾ cup lemon lime soda like Sprite or Mountain Dew
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Spray an 8-inch square pan with nonstick spray.
Cut peaches into 8 slices total. (Note: it's optional if you want to peel the peaches or not - see notes below)
Unroll tube of crescent rolls and separate into 8 pieces.
On each roll, sprinkle with a pinch of cinnamon.
Add one peach slice to the larger end of the crescent roll. Roll it up into a little bundle.
Continue with the rest of the rolls the same way.
Place all 8 dumplings into prepared baking dish.
Whisk together melted butter with sugar, vanilla and flour.
Pour butter mixture on top of crescent rolls bundles.
Pour soda around the edges and in between the crescent rolls.
Sprinkle tops with a bit more cinnamon.
Bake in preheated oven for about 35-40 minutes.
Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
Notes
This recipe can easily be doubled, just use a 9"x 13" baking pan.
You can use peeled peaches or unpeeled peaches, that is a personal preference. To peel peaches properly, add the peaches to boiling water for about 10-20 seconds to loosen the skin then place in an ice bath to stop the cooking process. Once cooled, use a pairing knife and gently peel away the skin, which should come off easily.
In addition, you could used canned sliced peaches for this as well.
You can use any type of lemon-lime soda the you like, I used Sprite for this recipe.
When pouring the soda over the peach dumplings, try to stick to the edges and middle and not pour directly over the dumplings themselves.
This is "self saucing". It will come out with a delicious thickened sauce at the end that you serve with the dumplings themselves.
We like to serve these with ice cream or whipped topping.