Apple Butter - Slow Cooker
Apple Butter - Slow Cooker

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, apple butter - slow cooker. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Place apples and vinegar into a large slow cooker, and place lid on top. At first I was little bit intimidated by the whole homemade fruit butter thing, but really it could not have been easier thanks to my apple peeler and slow cooker. A concentrated version of apple sauce (like a spreadable apple pie) produced by long, slow cooking of apples to a point where the sugar in the apples caramelizes, turning the apple butter a deep brown, thick apple preserve.

Apple Butter - Slow Cooker is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Apple Butter - Slow Cooker is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have apple butter - slow cooker using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Apple Butter - Slow Cooker:
  1. Make ready 1.5 lbs apples (about 4 medium or 3 large)
  2. Take 1/4 cup brown sugar (could also use maple syrup or honey)
  3. Make ready 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  4. Take 1/4 tsp. ground cloves
  5. Get 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
  6. Make ready 1/8 tsp. ground allspice
  7. Take 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  8. Take pinch salt

Of all the apple butter recipes on the Internet, this one is the simplest! You just need four ingredients and your slow cooker to make a big batch of velvety, sweet apple butter in under five hours. You'll notice that though this recipe is called "apple butter" is doesn't actually have any butter listed in the ingredients. The key to a thick and hearty apple butter actually starts with the cooking method.

Steps to make Apple Butter - Slow Cooker:
  1. Core and roughly chop the apples. You can peel them if you'd like, but I don't feel it's necessary, considering everything will be blended at the end. Place them in a lightly greased slow cooker.
  2. Sprinkle the brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and allspice over the apples and stir to incorporate. Place the lid on and cook on low heat for 6 or so hours.
  3. After the 6 or so hours, the apples should be all broken down and very tender. It will resemble a chunky, rustic applesauce in texture, but it should be thicker and darker than applesauce.
  4. Use an immersion blender to blend it right in the slow cooker bowl or transfer it to a food processor and pulse until smooth. Once its pureed, stir in the vanilla and salt.
  5. Place it into a large shallow bowl so it can cool off. Allow it to cool completely, then place it in an airtight container (I like to use a mason jar) and store in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.

Apples are cooked low and slow until the sugar in the apples caramelizes. This technique is what gives apple butter its rich color and dense spreadable texture. Our Slow-Cooker Apple Butter recipe uses brown sugar to get a jump start on the caramelization process! Both apple butter and apple sauce are slow cooked apples and spices. Apple butter is cooked longer than applesauce which creates a thick, smooth, intense apple flavored spread.

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