Recipe: Spicy Slow Cooker Apple Butter
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Easy, delicious, comforting! Make apple butter in your crock pot and surprise your family or give as holiday gifts!
Ingredients
  • 16 - 18 c. Apples, peeled, cored and chopped (about 20 - 25 apples depending on size)
  • 2 c. white sugar
  • ½ c. good quality apple cider
  • 2½ tsp. ground cinnamon
  • ½ - 1 tsp allspice
  • ½ tsp. ground cloves
  • ½ tsp. ground ginger
  • ½ tsp salt (optional)
Instructions
  1. Measure out and place apples in large 5 quart crock pot.
  2. In a small bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients.
  3. Add sugar mixture to apples and stir to coat.
  4. Pour apple cider over apples and give it a quick stir.
  5. Cover crock pot and cook on high heat for 2 hours.
  6. Stir, then reduce heat to low and continue cooking for another 8 - 11 hours.
  7. Using an immersion blender gently puree apple mixture to desired smoothness, Be very careful! It's hot!
  8. Place crock pot lid at an angle so that steam can escape and continue cooking on low for 3 - 6 hours until a blob of the mixture placed on a plate holds its shape and doesn't spread.
  9. Ladle Hot apple butter into clean and sterilized freezer jars. Twist on lids and freeze.
  10. To use, thaw in refrigerator and use within 1 week.
  11. Store your apple butter either in the fridge or freezer, do not keep it at room temperature unless you've canned it properly.
Notes
Yields: 6 pints
Recipe by A Hen's Nest - NW PA Single Woman Mom Blog at https://ahensnest.com/2010/11/delicious-apple-butter-crock-pot.html