Prize Winning Apple Butter -Easy Slow Cooker Recipe. Goes great with sweet or savory dishes. You choose! Nice for gifts too!
Prize Winning Slow Cooker Apple Butter is a delicious recipe and has been generously shared by one of our Lovefoodies supporters, Cathy Kopp.
Cathy is always cooking delicious Homemade dishes and just loves to cook. Cathy has lots of different canning recipes, such as Pickled Pepper Rings, and Homemade Canned Chili.
Here, Cathy's prize-winning slow cooker Apple Butter is incredibly easy and is certainly popular with her boys!
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It's easy to do, let your slow cooker do all the work and at the end, you have delicious Apple butter. Cathy entered her Apple Butter into the Wayne County Fair and won first prize, so many congratulations! It sure is a winner recipe!
For those who have never tried apple butter, you must! How would you eat it? Well, some people use it as a spread, like you would jam, on bread or toast. You can use it to make cakes, such as our applesauce brownie cake. (It uses apple butter instead of fat in the recipe!), and you can also use it to have alongside some delicious roast pork and crackling as a side sauce too!
Making slow cooker apple butter is a great way of preserving apples, using the canning method. Apple Butter is popular around Fall time when there's an abundance of delicious sweet and juicy apples, so make a batch and give away as gifts at Christmas time! It's hard to find a good apple butter in the grocery stores, especially one which has no added preservatives or artificial additives, so homemade is the way to go for a great tasting and nutritious apple butter.
So let's get straight to the recipe and see how we make this prize winning slow cooker apple butter recipe! Please enjoy!
Recipe by Cathy Kopp
Prep Time
25 minutes
Cook Time
22 hours
Yield
5.5 pints
Ingredients
12 pounds Golden Delicious apples - peeled, cored and sliced
½ cup apple cider vinegar
3 cups white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground allspice
Instructions
1. Place apples and vinegar in a large slow cooker, and place lid on top.
2. Set on High, and cook for 8 hours, then turn to Low, and continue cooking 10 hours more.
3. After 18 hours, stir in white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice, and cook 4 hours more.
My Notes:
This is easy, easy, easy! The most difficult part is peeling the apples and then getting them all to fit in the crockpot.
I made it according to the directions above. In the future, I will reduce the amount of white sugar and the amount of cinnamon.
In my case I canned the apple butter. See below for instructions how to do that if you are not sure.
Canning Guide
1. Fill the hot boiled jars with the hot apple butter. Leave a space of about ¼ inch (0.5 cm) of top of jar. Wipe jar rim removing any food residue. Centre hot sealing disc on clean jar rim. Screw band down. Place jars back in the canner (boiling pot). Ensure that all jars are covered by at least one inch (2.5 cm) of water. Cover canner and bring water to full rolling boil before starting to count processing time. At altitudes up to 1000 ft (305 m), process – boil filled jars – 10 minutes.
2. When processing time is complete, turn stove off, remove canner lid, wait 5 minutes, then remove jars without tilting and place them upright on a protected work surface. Cool upright, undisturbed 24 hours; DO NOT RETIGHTEN screw bands.
3. After cooling check jar seals. Sealed discs curve downward and do not move when pressed. Remove screw bands; wipe and dry bands and jars. Store screw bands separately or replace loosely on jars, as desired. Label and store jars in a cool, dark place. For best quality, use home canned foods within one year.
Note : I boil by jars before and after. Also altitude is important.
This is the altitude chart for guidance, Click HERE to see it.
The ingredients proportions are from Bernardin. The jars come with a little recipe book sometimes and fruit proportion has been taken from there as well as some of the boiling instructions.
NOTE: Please be aware that recipes shared by readers of this page are not endorsed, checked or tested by Lovefoodies. Always follow USDA home canning recommendations.
We'd love to hear from you and what you thought of our post. Did you make any changes or add some other goodies? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks for reading and happy cooking!
Why not try our popular Apple sauce and Walnut Brownie Cake (simply swap the apple sauce for Cathy's apple butter! )
Recipe Card
Prize Winning Slow Cooker Apple Butter
Prize Winning Apple Butter -Easy Slow Cooker Recipe. Goes great with sweet or savory dishes. You choose! Nice for gifts too!
Ingredients
- 12 pounds Golden Delicious apples - peeled, cored and sliced
- ½ cup apple cider vinegar
- 3 cups white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
Instructions
- Place apples and vinegar into a large slow cooker, and place lid on top.
- Set on High, and cook for 8 hours, then turn to Low, and continue cooking 10 hours more.
- After 18 hours, stir in white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice, and cook 4 hours more.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 30 Serving Size: 5 ½ pintsAmount Per Serving: Calories: 206Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 6mgCarbohydrates: 51gFiber: 5gSugar: 44gProtein: 1g
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Patricia
says:I have recently been diagnosed with diabetes and was wondering if this would work with Splenda and Splenda Brown Sugar Blend? They both measure the same as Sugar. Thanks
Reveca Rodriguez
says:I saw your prize winning apple butter so I tried it entered in a fair we had in town , this is the first time I’ve ever won anything I won first place for it & first place for my apple 🍏 pie filling I also crochet & entered it & first place for that , thank you so much for recipe, I don’t know how to post pictures or I would thank you 🙏🏼 so much
Su Sholer
says:Great Post!
R.L.Schafrath
says:Absolutely loved this recipe! I have a large crockpot but not enough room for all my apples so I put some apples in a pot and simmered on stove for about an hour and placed in crockpot when the apples cooked down a bit. Also used less sugar, one cup brown sugar and one cup cane sugar. The apples I used were Fuji and it turned out fantastic! I did read through the comments and didn’t want mine to burn and waste all my apples so I started Cooking during the day so i could keep a watchful eye on it! Although I am originally from Wooster, I live in Florida now. Thanks for the recipe, will use this one again as my go to recipe!
Traci
says:Is there a way to adapt this to the instant pot? Mine does have a slow cooker method on it, but I’d rather try the pressure cook way first.
Barb clevenger
says:I did mine my instant pot, just dumped everything in at once and set. When finished I put it in my kitchenaid mixer and use the wisk attachment to reach the right consistency
Mimi
says:Hi there, I want to cook mine in the instant pot too. Did you pressure cooked it? If so for how long? Thank you!
Lori Becker
says:I followed the recipe to the letter but I did cut back on the sugar and it just tasted of vinegar in an overwhelming way. :(
Lori Becker
says:Found this today and will be making soon…can’t wait! wondering if keeping it on low it ok my crock pot seems to run hot. Have you ever used this recipient with pumpkin?
Thank you
Lori
Odette
says:I halved the receipt to fit in my crockpot and used only 1 cup of brown sugar. I kept the cover off in the last 4 hours to reduce to the consistency I like. It my have been a bit more than 4 hours, I didn’t time it at the end. Turned out wonderfully. I’ll be giving as hostess gifts around the holidays. Thanks for posting.
Rhonda
says:Hello .., your recipe AB Recipe sounds wonderful… I’ve searched Pinterest and not all recipes have the cloves and allspice … my question is how long will this last in the refrigerator or do you think it can be frozen … with the vinegar in the recipe I think maybe help to preserve it… thank you …
Peggy
says:Hi
Took your advice and used 2 cups white sugar and I teaspoon cinnamon
And it is fantastic, quite dark and I also used an immersion blender
So good my husband said it tastes like apple pie
Thank you so much
Mary
says:Can this recipe be on the stove top
Trista
says:Tried this with a mix of jonamac and jonagolds, and it was aaaaaamazing!! I also halved the recipe since my crockpot could only hold a little over 6lbs of apples, but it was perfect (and a good excuse to buy an apple peeler, corer and slicer).
I made another batch with gala, too and while it is tasty, I prefer the jonamac and jonagolds. Thanks for sharing, it’s seriously the best stuff I’ve tasted!
Robin Smith
says:What I do is shred the apples to make them fit I just love this recipe everyone loved it. Thanks for sharing for sharing.
Nicole
says:Just made a small batch (1/4 of recipe) of this and I am very pleased with the results! I only used brown sugar and I was pleased with the taste so decided to omit the white sugar. I also added more spices for some extra flavor. Definitely will make again, it’s super easy and makes a great Christmas gift!
Wanda
says:Can I use apple pie spice in stead of all those other spices to make my apple butter
Hate life
says:Mine burned to a crisp in less than 10 hours. Ruined all of my apples!
David
says:Sorry, but I’m gonna have to call you a liar.
Chrissy
says:Mine burnt too. I did everything exactly on time. Mine did not burn all the way. It was just burned around the edges on the second check. It was fine when I had to turn it on low. Then, when it was time to put the sugar in, it was burnt on the edges. May be I did not stir it enough or something or may be my crock pot cooks hotter or something. Some ideas would be nice because I would really like to try it again and get it to work.