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Slow Cooker Overnight Apple Butter

I love Apple Butter, and I like homemade the best! Slow Cooker Overnight Apple Butter is wonderful, so good served on toast, biscuits, English Muffin or with pork and chicken too!

ApplianceSlow Cooker
Cook10 hours
Serves4 cups
Jenn BareWritten byJenn Bare
Slow Cooker Overnight Apple Butter

Method

Step by step

  1. 01

    In a 5 quart slow cooker, combine all ingredients.

  2. 02

    Cover. Cook on Low for 10 hours or until apples are very tender.

  3. 03

    Put a fine-mesh sieve over a bowl; such as cheesecloth, and spoon out one-third of apple mixture into sieve.

  4. 04

    With the back of a spoon, press the mixture through the sieve.

  5. 05

    Discard pulp.

  6. 06

    Repeat procedure with remaining apple mixture, one third at a time.

  7. 07

    Transfer apple mixture back to the slow cooker.

  8. 08

    Uncovered, cook on High for 1 1/2 hours or until mixture is thick, stir occasionally.

  9. 09

    Spoon into a bowl; cover and chill up to a week.

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Originally published on getcrocked.com.

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Jenn Bare

Founder of GetCrocked and lifelong slow-cooker devotee. Jenn writes every recipe here with one goal: get families back around the table without the weeknight scramble.

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