Have you ever tried a Crockpot Apple Butter Recipe? After trying my hand at Crockpot Applesauce, I wanted to give this Crockpot apple butter recipe a try as well. I will just tell you right now, this is wonderful! This apple treat filled our home with a delicious scent, and tastes so good, taking me right back to my childhood. This apple butter recipe is so easy, and will be a keeper in our household!
Ingredients For Crockpot Apple Butter Recipe
- Apples, peeled, cored, and cut into large sections. (enough to fill your Crockpot to the top)
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 2 tsp lemon juice
How To Cook Crockpot Apple Butter
- Fill Crockpot with prepared apples.
- In separate bowl combine and stir, 1 cup of granulated sugar, 1 cup of brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. (reserve the rest of the sugar for later)
- Pour sugar and spice mixture over apples.
- Turn Crockpot onto low and cook apples for 10 hours. After first 1-2 hours gently stir in the sugar mixture to coat the apples.
- Leave it and forget it now. At this point I let mine cook overnight
- After 10 hours take lid off and stir. Your mixture will be very dark and cooked down by about half the capacity of your Crockpot.
- Stir in lemon juice, and vanilla.
- At this point taste your apple butter for sweetness. I had tart firm apples and they needed more sugar, so I then added the additional 1/2 cup of granulated and 1/2 cup of packed brown sugar. You can adjust accordingly to your taste and the apples you are using.
- Let apple butter continue to cook for 1-2 hours with lid off to absorb more liquid and make apple butter thicken more.
- At the end of the cooking time, smooth apple butter with an emulsion blender.
- Spoon into clean pint jars, and cover tightly with jar lid and ring. Be sure to leave room at the top of the jar if freezing.
This recipe makes 10 pints of apple butter. I then placed my filled pint jars in the freezer and we are enjoying this apple butter on toast, pancakes, and biscuits everyday.
This is the taste of the autumn season in a jar! Enjoy making this simple fall treat for your family.
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This looks so good–all that apple butter needs is a biscuit!
I made this last year and it was so good. Smelling it all day was the best! My recipe doesn’t have brown sugar and I think I’d like to try that on this years. I remember my mother making apple butter in a huge iron pot outside with neighbors. I still think that would be fun.
This looks soooo good! My husband loves apple butter. I’ll have to try this and let you know how it turned out!
Blessings~
Shari
Oh my, I am excited about this recipe. Apple butter is a favorite of mine. Yum!
this sounds delicious~ and very simple to make.. thanks for sharing =)
Hi Denise, Can this recipe be canned via traditional canning method (boiling water, etc) instead of just freezing the jars?
Thanks,
Aurora
Aurora,
I am sure it can. I would look up apple butter canning recipes and see if they vary at all.
Hi Denise
I made this apple butter, which was delicious. But it was spicer than any apple butter I’ve had before. I was wondering maybe it wouldn’t have been so spicey if I had added more apples. How many cups of apples did you use or what size crockpot did you use?
Just wondering what size crockpot you used I have a larger one or you could let me know how many apple you cut. Thank you
How many apples did you use?
I don’t thing I have enough to fill my entire crockpot…
It was a 10 or 12 quart, if you don’t have enough apples, just adjust the spices and sugar, you can cut them back and add more later if it needs it.
I absolutely LOVE apple butter. Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but I will eat the stuff straight out of the jar with a spoon. I’ve made crockpot apple butter once before and it’s so easy and totally worth it.
I was wondering if I could use a food processer or a potato masher to process the apples before putting them in the jar. I don’t have an emulsion blender. Any thoughts or suggestions. Thanks, I am looking forward to trying this recipe. Also, What apple work best or does it matter?
Benita,
You could just use a potato masher. You don’t need an emulsion blender, but they are very cheap at Walmart. like just 10.00 I think if you ever want one. They works so wonderful. But definitely don’t need it!
I think you should use any apples that are your favorites. I would ask at your grocery store for the best apples to use. We just used what we had from our tree, and I honestly don’t know what they are!
I hope you enjoy the recipe!
I was wondering what size crockpot to use? I have a 6 quart pot and was wondering if I needed to adjust the ingredients to it. I am also planning on using granny smith apples and am so excited to make this butter
I made this recipe. it was delicious, but I wanted to know if you could omit the lemon juice out of the recipe and still get the same flavor?