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Simple Spiced Crockpot Apple Butter Recipe
Use this homemade crockpot apple butter as a cake filling or spread it over cookies. Apple butter is especially good served with warm, buttered biscuits or scones. This makes a wonderful late afternoon snack when you serve it with a cup of tea or coffee. Apple butter is suitable for breakfast, lunch or dinner, whether you want to add it to your cereal, serve it alongside your pork chops or make it part of your dessert.
You can keep homemade apple butter for two months in the refrigerator or up to eighteen months in a properly sealed jar, so you might want to double the recipe or make more than you need. Homemade apple butter makes an unusual but very useful gift too, if you package it nicely. Use an immersion blender in the crockpot to get your apple butter to the right consistency. You can swap the sugar for one cup of honey if you prefer a less sweet result. If you want to put it in cans, pack it into hot jars and ensure you leave quarter of an inch of headspace. Process the cans in boiling water for ten minutes.
Add some apple juice to the finished apple butter if it is too thick or let it cook with the lid off if it is too thin. When some of the moisture evaporates it will thicken up. You can spread this delicacy on crackers, toast, or serve it with pork chops. Why not add some apple butter to your morning cereal to liven it up, teamed with a couple of spoonfuls of your favorite yogurt? Feel free to alter the spices if you want. Maybe you do not have the ground cloves or the allspice. No problem. Just alter the amounts of cinnamon and nutmeg. As long as there is a little spice in the recipe, the finished apple butter will have a good depth of flavor.
Amazing Apple Butter with Spices
Ingredients -
3 lbs peeled, cored, sliced apples
2 teaspoons cinnamon
½ teaspoon allspice
½ teaspoon ground cloves
¾ teaspoon nutmeg
⅛ teaspoon salt
¾ cup fresh apple cider or water
3 cups white sugar
Preparation:
Fill the crockpot ¾ full with apple slices.
If you have a large crockpot you might need to double the recipe quantities.
Add the cinnamon, allspice, cloves, nutmeg, salt, sugar and cider or water and cover the slow cooker.
Cook on low overnight or until the butter is thick but still spreadable.
Stir the apple butter often when it gets thick to stop it from scorching and sticking to the bottom of the crockpot.
Process it with an immersion blender or in a food processor after letting it cool down a bit.
Photo Description:
Served on hot biscuits or scones with butter, this homemade apple butter is really special. You cannot compare it to canned apple butter which has a bland flavor instead of the great homemade flavor you get when you make your own. This apple butter is simple to make and it has a fantastic taste. This versatile spread is good with crackers, bread or toast, as well as biscuits or scones, like you can see in the photo. You could also serve it alongside turkey or pork because the fruitiness goes well with these meats. This is such a versatile recipe that it is worth making plenty of it at once.
