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Two open jars filled with apple butter.
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Apple Butter

A delicious, homemade spread for your morning toast.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time12 hours
Total Time12 hours 20 minutes
Course: Condiments, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 50 servings
Calories: 37kcal

Equipment

  • 1 Slow Cooker (5-6 quarts is ideal)

Ingredients

  • 12 small apples (of any variety)
  • 2 cups apple grape juice blend (100% juice - no sugar added - Or two cups of one OR the other, depending on what you can find)
  • 2 tbsp. unsulphured molasses
  • ½ cup honey
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp. ground allspice
  • ¼ tsp. ground cloves
  • ¼ tsp. salt
US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  • Gather and measure all your ingredients.
    Overhead focus. Ingredients for this apple butter recipe.
  • Cut and core all your apples and place them in the slow cooker.
    Cut apples on a cutting board. Overhead focus.
  • Add your juice.
    Adding apples and apple juice to a slow cooker crock.
  • Add your honey.
    Adding honey to a crock of apples and apple juice.
  • Add the molasses.
    Pouring molasses over cut apples in a slow cooker crock.
  • Add your spices.
    Spices for making apple butter in a white dish.
  • Add the salt.
    Adding salt to cut apples in a slow cooker crock.
  • Mix everything up and turn the heat on high.
    Apples in a white slow cooke crock, stirred until coated with spices and sweeteners.
  • After 2 hours, the juice should be boiling. Once it boils, turn the heat to low and continue cooking for 10 more hours.
    Cooked apples in a white slow cooke crock.
  • When done, transfer to a fine-meshed sieve in small batches and press it through with a rubber spatula.
    Pressing cooked apples through a fine-meshed sieve over a bowl.
  • You'll end up with a smooth butter.
    Strained apple butter in a glass bowl.
  • Transfer this to heat-safe glass jars.
    A wooden spoon holds a spoonful of apple butter over an open jar.
  • Cool on the countertop, then transfer to the fridge with tight-fitting lids.
    Three open canning jars filled with apple butter.

Notes

Please note that the nutrition data given here is a ballpark figure. Exact data is not possible.

Nutrition

Serving: 1tbsp. | Calories: 37kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 11mg | Potassium: 59mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 19IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 1mg