Pie pastry - your own or purchased

4 medium NYS Crispin or Empire apples

or your favorite NYS apple

2 cups SweeTrees Maple Syrup

1/3 cup SweeTrees Granulated Maple Sugar

½ tsp. cinnamon

2 tbsp. butter or margarine

Heat oven to 425° - roll out Pastry and cut into about 7” squares. Pare and core one apple for each dumpling. Place apple in center of each square.

Mix together the SweeTrees Granulated Maple Sugar and cinnamon - fill apple cavities. Dot each apple top with about ½ tsp. Butter. Bring opposite points of pastry up over the apple. Moisten pastry to seal it together. Place in baking dish.

Bake 40 to 45 minutes until crust is nicely browned and apples are cooked through (test with fork). Put dumpling on serving dish. Drizzle with hot SweeTrees Maple Syrup and top with whipped cream or ice cream.

Developed by Dottie Merle, Merle Maple Farm, Attica, NY