Slow Cooker Maple Apple Butter

This recipe for Slow Cooker Maple Apple Butter is super easy to make and the final product is versatile and full of cozy fall flavors. You can spread homemade apple butter on toast, fresh biscuits, pancakes, or even make an apple butter sandwich! You can also use apple butter to add flavor and moisture to baked goods. Think apple butter muffins or apple butter quick bread. You can even add a small dish of apple butter and some sliced apples to a cheese board! The possibilities are somewhat endless, but it all starts with a great apple butter like this Slow Cooker Maple Apple Butter.

Many apple butters are loaded with sugar, but this one is different. Initially, you will sweeten your apple butter with only maple syrup. Once the apple butter has finished cooking, you will then sweeten to taste with maple sugar or some light brown sugar. I like to use either Cortland, Macintosh, or Honey Crisp apples for this recipe. This apple butter recipe is the perfect way to use those extra apples you have hanging around from apple picking. You can preserve apple butter by canning it and it will last up to a year. Beautiful jars of apple butter make the perfect homemade holiday or hostess gift.

So get your slow cooker ready, it's time to make some apple butter!

Making Maple Apple Butter in Your Slow Cooker:

You'll begin with 6-7 large apples that have been peeled, cored and sliced. This recipe will make about 3 cups of finished apple butter. If you want more than three cups, simply double, or even triple the ingredients. Next you'll add ½ cup of apple cider, ½ cup of maple syrup, the juice of 1 lemon, 1 teaspoon vanilla and the spices to your apples. Mix to coat the apples.

You will cook the apples, completely covered, on low for 6-8 hours. Check on your apples periodically to make sure there is still a bit of liquid left in the bottom of your slow cooker. You may need to add an additional ¼ of apple cider. You want to make sure the apples are not browning on the edges or sticking to your slow cooker.

Once the apples have cooked, you will puree the apple butter. You can use your immersion blender for this. Otherwise allow the apple butter to cool a bit and transfer to your blender and puree. Once you have pureed the apple butter, add it to a sauce pan, sweeten with maple sugar to taste, and warm on low for about 5 minutes.

Storing Your Maple Apple Butter:

Once the apple butter is finished, you will transfer the butter to containers for storage. You have three options for storage:

• “can” your apple butter and it will last in your pantry for 18 months – 2 years (some people say indefinitely)
• store your apple butter in the refrigerator for about 2 weeks
• freeze your apple butter for up to a year

I decided to store my apple butter in these beautiful canning jars from Bormioli Rocco. Because I was planning to use this apple butter right away for baking, I stored my apple butter in the refrigerator and it barely lasted the week.

If you want to can your apple butter, check out my recipe for Slow Cooker Maple Peach Butter, or read the end of this recipe for canning directions.

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Other slow cooker recipes

• Slow Cooker Maple Peach Butter
• Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Turkey Chili
• Slow Cooker Maple Bourbon BBQ Pork
• Slow Cooker Chicken Noodle Soup

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