Description
Starting with applesauce, you’re 1 minute of prep away from getting a batch of apple butter underway. Make your apple butter extra special by starting with a batch of lazy applesauce. This low sugar slow cooker applesauce is anything but tasteless. Your toast deserves only the best.
Ingredients
Scale
- 10 cups unsweetened applesauce (use a batch of homemade applesauce for the best flavor)
- 1 cup light brown sugar (213 g)
- 1 Tablespoons apple pie spice (or ground cinnamon, a blend of cinnamon and allspice, chai spice blend or pumpkin pie spice )
Instructions
- Mix the applesauce in a slow cooker with the brown sugar and spice of your choosing.
Set on low heat for 8-10 hours. Stir it about once every hour or so during the cooking time. What you’re looking for is for the applesauce to darken considerably and to cook down into a very thick, spreadable paste. When it’s done, the apple butter will sit on a spoon, holding its shape. - If it seems like your apple butter needs a little bit more time after 10 hours, give it another stir and keep cooking for another hour.
- When the apple butter is at the consistency that you like, pack it into sterilized jars. After the jars have cooled, you can store the apple butter in the fridge or the freezer for longer storage. If you’d like, you can process the jars for canning, following the directions in a canning book like the Ball canning book.
Notes
- Make it spicier: How spiced you make this is up to your choosing. 1 Tablespoon is a good amount to start with. Taste your apple butter when it’s ready and see if you’d like to add more spice. I wouldn’t go beyond 2 Tablespoons of spice.
- Skip the sugar: if you’d prefer, take out the sugar entirely. Your finished apple butter will still be sweet, just a little less.
- Prep Time: 1 minute
- Cook Time: 10 hours
- Category: Baking building blocks
- Method: Slow cooker
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 tablespoon
- Calories: 18
- Sugar: 4
- Sodium: 1
- Fat: 0
- Saturated Fat: 0
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 5
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 0
- Cholesterol: 0