👩🍳 Ingredient Notes:
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Apples – You’ll use a variety of apples for the best flavor. We prefer a mix of Fuji, Golden Delicious, Braeburn, and Cortland.
Sugar – You’ll need both granulated white sugar and dark brown sugar, which has a stronger molasses flavor than light brown sugar.
Spices – We’re using traditional apple pie spices here, including cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves.
Vanilla Extract – A bit of vanilla is going to add some extra flavor and it’ll help to balance out the spices.
What We Love About This Recipe:
You can experiment with lots of different apple varieties to find a mix that perfectly suits your taste!
It’ll level up any regular breakfast item with lots of flavor, like pancakes or waffles!
Store bought apple butter is fine, but it doesn’t even compare to homemade!
🥘 How to Make Slow Cooker Apple Butter:
Prep: Rinse, peel, and chop your apples into chunks.
Season: Sprinkle the sugars and spices over the apples in the crockpot.
Stir & Cook: Stir it all up to combine until the apple slices are well coated. Cover and cook on high for 5 hours.
Puree: Use an immersion blender to puree the slow cooked apples until smooth. Stir in the vanilla.
Thicken: We’re almost done but this last step is pretty important. Let the apple butter continue to cook on high uncovered this time, for about 30 to 45 minutes.
The apple butter will thicken up nicely, which makes it easier for spreading and it concentrates all that sweet apple and cinnamon spice flavor!
Helpful Tip!
If the apple butter seems like it is still too thin you can just continue to cook it for longer in the crockpot until it has reduced further. It will also thicken as it cools.
Store: This makes quite a bit so there’s a good chance you won’t be eating it all in one sitting. Which is just fine, because it stores well! Transfer the apple butter to a mason jar and keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks or freeze for up to 3 months.
🍞 What To Serve With Apple Butter:
There are so many ways you can enjoy this apple butter! I mean, pretty much anything that you’d put jam or preserves on is going pair wonderfully with this apple butter recipe. Here are some suggestions:
Toast
Hootenanny
Pancakes
Waffles
Baked Apple Oatmeal
Grilled Cheese (just a thin layer of apple butter paired with melty cheese is delicious!)
