Absolutely wonderful recipe! My husband whose favorite dessert is peach or apple cobbler has declared this as its replacement. I have made these almost every weekend since we found this recipe. I too followed the recommendation of other reviewers: reduced water to 1/4 cup, cut apples in wedges before wrapping with dough and covered with cinnamon/sugar mixture. I used 1/2 jazz apples and 1/2 granny smith and found that while the flavor was the same with both the jazz apples maintained their shape better and the granny smith cooked down to almost nothing, but both were fabulous! Also I made 1/2 with crescent dough and 1/2 with ready made crusts and hands down everyone thought the ones with the crescent dough were better. I also added nutmeg before pouring on the sauce. The last time I made them I didn't bother peeling the apples and it didn't seem to make any difference. Do yourself a favor and make this dish...next time will try reducing the butter because I don't think it will affect the flavor that much.

Made these just like the recipe says, and they were delicious!!! My entire family enjoyed them. The only reviewer recommendation I followed was turning them with about 10 minutes of baking left. I'll make them again and I won't change a thing. I was a little nervous about how much liquid I poured into the dish, but it thickened nicely while baking.

Delish with some vanilla ice cream

When I started making this recipe everyone in my house went crazy over it. I paid for a phone line being installed by one of my friends. He wouldn't get out the car til he smelled them cooking. The best part is fighting over the corner instead of making them in a round dish. I serve them freash out the oven topped with ice cream.

Mmm, this is now one of my favorite desserts!! I took the advice of other reviewers and waited for the dumplings to cook for a few minutes before pouring the sauce in a little at a time. And, I put cinnamon sugar on diced apples. I used Pillsbury Honey Butter biscuit dough instead of the regular, which made it even more scrumptious! Will definitely be using this recipe again and again.

I LOVE this recipe!! Fairly easy to make and absolutely delicious!!! I have made a few changes based upon others' great ideas: I diced the apples and coated them with cinnamon/sugar. I baked the dumplings on one side for 20 minutes. I made up the sauce minus the water and had to add just a tablespoon or so to get it the right consistency. I also used 1/2 white sugar and 1/2 brown sugar and ended up with this beautiful caramel sauce. Then I turned the dumplings and baked for another 10 minutes. I added the sauce the last 10 minutes of cooking.

Excellent flavors and quite easy. I made adjustments based on some reviews. Perhaps should have read more reviews as I diced up 3 apples (instead of the recommended halved 4 apples) and couldn't fit all the apple pieces into the biscuit dough. I tossed apple pieces with cinnamon sugar. Baked dumplings for about 15-20 minutes without sauce. I couldn't flip dumplings over as they were placed too closely together in baking dish and baked together making it difficult to flip dumplings over. Didn't add water to sauce but added leftover apple pieces so got liquid from that. Poured sauce (with leftover apples) over dumplings and cooked additional 15 minutes. The apples in the sauce were less cooked than the ones inside the dumplings due to less time in the oven. However, the family agreed it made for a nice combination to have some fully cooked apples and others slightly cooked so still a little firm. We actually had this for breakfast so didn't add ice cream. I do think I'll try baking with sauce from beginning next time to see what we think about that, or I might try a 9 x 13 dish and separate the dumplings more for initial baking if I chose to add sauce later. I will also probably up the cinnamon to at least 3/4 tsp as family loves cinnamon. Recently discovered Saigon cinnamon and very pleased with the flavor.

These were okay. I diced up the apples as suggested and they smelled wonderful while cooking. I ended up throwing out the leftovers and no one really said anything about them. I don't think I would make them again and if I did I would change them around which in turn would make them a completley different recipe.

im not a big apple person so i tried this recipe with peaches...it was A WONDERFUL AND NEW FAMILY FAVORITE!!! It made it even better that it was something i could make with my 3 yr old.

This was an awesome recipe. I thought it was more of a breakfast recipe, but on some of the reviews it said that it was really a dessert item. I think this had a really good sauce!!! When you're trying to figure out when biscuits are golden you can't really see in the oven because of the light so you will have to take it out of the oven to see it. If you take the dumplings out at the right time it will be crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. I think the cinnamon on top tasted great, but I don't think you need to measure it. I think it was one of my favorite sauces ever. This recipe is perfect for breakfast because it just the right amount of sweetness (I only put in 2/3 of a cup of sugar). Also, my biscuit container was smaller than you're suppose to put it in. In which case just cook it for about 20-30 min. This a great recipe. I will probably make this recipe again. (As written by my 10 yr old 'chef.')