Apple Dumplings

This recipe came to us from www.ThePioneerWoman.com website.  It absolutely the easiest thing in the world and it tastes great.  I don't know what the Mountain Dew does for this recipe, but you sure don't taste it in the final product.

2 Granny Smith Apples
2 cans refrigerated crecent rolls
2 sticks unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 small or 1/2 can Mountain Dew

Preheat Oven to 350F.  Peal and core the apples and then cut each apple into eight slices.
Prepare a 9"x13" pan with butter or non-stick spray.  Wrape each of the apple slices with one of the crescent rolls and place in two rows in the 9"x13" pan.  Melt butter, add sugar when melted, and barely stir.  Add vanilla, and barely stir again.  You want the butter/sugar mixture to be very grainy.  Pour this mixture over each of the rows of the dumplings.  Pour the Mountain Dew down each side and center between the rows of dumplings.  prinkle dumplings with cinnamon.  Bake for 40 minutes.  Serve warm with scoop of vanilla ice cream.  I've made this one time and thought I could get by with less butter, but with the butter and Mountain Dew, there was enough sauce left unabsorbed to spread over the dumplings when you serve them.