Apple Dumplings

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 24 rhodes frozen dinner rolls, thawed but still cold
• 2/3 cup canned pumpkin
• 8 ounces cream cheese, cold
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1/2 cup pecan pieces

Recipe

• 1 cut each roll in half to make 48 pieces.
• 2 cut the cream cheese into 48 equal pieces.
• 3 wrap each dough piece around a piece of cream cheese to completely enclose.
• 4 combine pumpkin, sugar, pie spice and cinnamon in a bowl.
• 5 dip each filled dough ball into pumpkin mixture and coat completely.
• 6 place 16 coated balls in the bottom of a sprayed bundt pan.
• 7 drizzle 1/3 of the melted butter and sprinkle 1/3 of the pecans over them.
• 8 repeat two more times.
• 9 cover with plastic wrap and let rise until dough is one inch below the top of the pan.
• 10 remove wrap and bake at 350°f 45-50 minutes.
• 11 cover with foil last 10 minutes of baking to prevent over browning.
• 12 remove from oven and invert onto serving dish.