Method
• Pre heat oven to 160 degrees celcius
• Combine the flour, sugar, butter and water into a mixer or food processor. Use the pulse mechanism until it has formed a dough or use your hands to bring it together
• Rest the dough for 20 minutes
• Meanwhile, peel, core and cut the apples lengthways into eight pieces
• Season the apples with the eight spice mix or the cinnamon and nutmeg
• Repeat this process for all 8 pieces
• Place a piece of apple on each and wrap the dough around the apple sealing well at the top. Ensure that the pastry is well sealed all around the apple so that the apple will steam inside the whilst the pastry cooks
• To make the sauce, combine all the ingredients and bring to the boil in a small saucepan
•Pour the sauce into a shallow casserole dish (around 22cm diameter and 5-6cm deep)
Place the dumplings on to the sauce and bake for approximately 30 minutes or until golden and the apples are cooked
• Allow to cool for 5-10 minutes and serve with vanilla ice cream, spooning the sauce over the top
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1 cup self raising flour
2 teaspoons castor sugar
60g cultured butter at room temperature, diced
2 tbsp water
1 golden delicious apple
1 pinch eight spice (or a pinch each of cinnamon and nutmeg)
1 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp golden syrup
1 ½ cup water
30g butter
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