Corazon's French Apple Cake and Verablue's Apple Cake with Caramel Sauce are both great. I have made the following recipe for dessert and everyone loves it:
Caramel Apple Dumplings
Sauce:
1-1/2 cup water
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 TBS butter
1 tsp. vanilla extract
½ t salt
Dumplings:
1-1/4 cup all-purpose flour
¼ cup sugar
1-1/2 tsp. Baking powder
½ cup milk
2 TBS butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup diced apples
Combine all sauce ingredients in pan. Bring to boil, stirring constantly.
Start dumplings-combine flour, sugar, baking powder together.
Add milk, butter and vanilla, stir just until moist, add apples.
Drop into the boiling sauce – the size of large teaspoons.
Lower heat to low, cover and cook until knife inserted comes out clean-about 8-10 min.
Serve over vanilla ice cream.