Apple and Pear Dumplings

I used to work at a restaurant that had an wonderful dessert. It was an apple dumpling served with vanilla ice cream and a caramel sauce. Yesterday, I went over to my friend Sharon's house and we decided to make a recreation of this dessert. I used a recipe for pear dumplings in a recipe book onewishfulgeek gave me. We used apples in addition to pears also. There was plenty of pastry shell left over so we made leaves to decorate the apples and pears. Initially we forgot to brush on the egg wash (to make the pretty shine on the pastry) but we took them out and added it half way through.

They turned out really nice! We served it with some Haagen Dazs Five Vanilla ice cream. (If you haven't tried this, you must! One of the best packaged ice cream out there! I love the coffee one!) The apple and pear dumplings were a lightly sweet and comforting dessert. Sharon still has my recipe book, so I will post the recipe once I get it back from her.

(30) Days of Music Complete

(finish line) 

I've finally finished my mini music blog. Wow, was it hard to keep up! It's done now though, and I'm glad. It was lots of fun, but lots of work. It was cool to go down memory lane with some of the songs. I didn't like a lot of the themes, so I just changed them. Hey, it's my blog, I can do whatever I want.


Now that the music is over....back to baking! I have a free day tomorrow, it will be filled with studying and baking a new dessert! I'll keep you posted, as always!