Sauces and Condiments Recipe ⇒ Our Apple Butter

My 9-year-old son said 'Mom, you have to share this with America!' It's a huge hit at our house and easy to make.

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Calories:58.5
Our Apple Butter
Prep:15m
Cook:9h
Ready in:9h 15m
Serving:11 4-ounce jars

Ingredients

  • 5 ½ pounds McIntosh apples - peeled, cored, and chopped
  • ¾ cup white sugar
  • ¾ cup dark brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 2 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon ground ginger

Cooking Directions

  1. Blend apples in batches in a blender until no large chunks remain.
  2. Combine blended apples, white sugar, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger in a slow cooker.
  3. Cook uncovered on High for 1 hour. Place cover on slow cooker and continue cooking, stirring about twice per hour, until smooth, 6 to 8 hours. Remove the cover and continue cooking and stirring until thick and spreadable, 2 to 4 hours.
  4. Spoon into jars leaving about an inch of space at the top; seal and freeze.
This uses very little sugar and retains lots of the apple flavor. Pureeing beforehand makes it easier than attempting to mash them at a later stage. You can let it cook longer if you want it thicker. *I use this to make roughly eleven 4 oz jelly jars; You can let it cook longer if you want it thicker; You may choose to use whole spices in place of the ground version, but they can lose flavor from cooking for hours in the slow cooker.

Nutrition Facts

  • calories58.5
  • carbohydrateContent15.1 g
  • fatContent0.1 g
  • fiberContent1.4 g
  • proteinContent0.2 g
  • sodiumContent1.7 mg
  • sugarContent13 g
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