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Homemade Slow Cooker Apple Butter with Free Labels

  • Author: A Cultivated Nest
  • Yield: 3-4 quarts 1x
  • Category: Preserve

Description

This homemade apple butter is so tasty, and very easy to make!

Ingredients

Scale
  • 5 or 6 lbs of apples (any variety you like)
  • 2 cups of white sugar
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 2–3 Tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/2 Tsp. ground cloves
  • 1/4 Tsp. salt

Instructions

  1. Core and slice your apples. You don’t have to peel them. However, if the idea of cooked peels bothers you, feel free to peel them first.
  2. Fill your slow cooker with the apples.
  3. Put all other ingredients in a bowl and stir to combine.
  4. Pour the sugar mixture over the apples and stir so they all get covered.
  5. Cover the apples and cook them on high for 1 hour. Then reduce the slow cooker to low and cook for another 8-10 hours. During that time, stir the apple butter occasionally and mash the apples with a potato masher until you get a smooth consistency. Also taste to make sure the apple butter is sweet enough (the sweetness varies based on how sweet your apples are). If it’s not sweet enough, add more sugar. When done, the apple butter should be dark brown and have a thick consistency.
  6. You can fill hot sterilized Mason jars and use the water bath method to preserve a lot of apple butter, but I just make one jar to eat right now and freeze the excess. Remember to tap the jar on the counter to remove air bubbles.
  7. Print out your jar labels, cut them out, and adhere them to the lids. I printed mine on cream colored card stock.

Find it online: https://acultivatednest.com/homemade-slow-cooker-apple-butter/