Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter

You'll find cinnamon spice and everything nice is in this spectacular slow cooked Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter. Slather it on freshly baked biscuits or taste for a homemade apple harvest treat.

Easy Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter Recipe

Making and preparing apple butter is common practice here in the South. In fact, many churches and community groups still gather during apple season to peel, core, chop and cook bushels of apples to make apple butter. Often the freshly chopped apples are cooked the old fashioned way in a gigantic cast iron pot over a fire with many resident "stirrers" on hand to keep the sweet apple puree moving and prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pot.

How to Make the Best Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter Recipe

Apple butter making is a fun event to attend and of course, with all of those workers, there's always a potluck spread to keep people happily munching while they work. Honest livin' and good eats, equal great fun! To celebrate the first day of fall this year, I simmered sliced apples all day in my slow cooker to make my own homemade apple butter smothered with a sugar and spice blend to tantalize the taste buds. It's worth the small amount of effort it takes to put it together then let your slow cooker do the work.

• Ingredients you'll need to make homemade Slow Cooker Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter: Cubed apples, light brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg, salt, vanilla extract and fresh lemon juice.
• Kitchen gadgets you'll need: A 6 quart or larger slow cooker, a sharp knife and cutting board, apple corer. measuring cups and spoons, an immersion blender or a stand blender for processing everything together.
• Store apple butter chilled in the refrigerator in a mason jar or similar airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
• You can preserve this apple butter using proper canning technique. It will make around 4 pints or 8 half pints. To do so: 
• Prepare boiling water canner. Heat jars in simmering water until ready to use, do not boil. Remove jars to fill using tongs. (They're hot!)
• Prepare lids in warm soapy water and set aside with bands.
• Cook Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter per recipe.
• Ladle hot apple butter into hot jars, leaving ½ inch headspace. Remove air bubbles. Wipe rim with a lint free kitchen towel or paper towel.
• Center lid on jar. Apply band turning just until it's fingertip tight.
• Place jar in boiling water canner. Repeat until all jars are filled.
• Process jars 15 minutes, adjusting for altitude. Turn off heat, remove the lid and let jars stand for 5 minutes.
• Carefully remove jars and allow them to cool for 12-24 hours.
• Check lids for seal, they should not flex when center is pressed.

What Variety of Apples are the Best to Use for Apple Butter?

Invariably, when I make apple butter someone will ask what are the best apples to use. Most agree that the softer apples will cook down the quickest. My advice is to use the apples you love, and a mix of varieties will yield a more complex flavor.

• Some varieties we love are Braeburn, Cortland, Crispin (Mutsu), McIntosh, Fuji, Golden Delicious. Gala, Honeycrisp and Rome. My answer is always the same, use whatever apples you enjoy most.
• Other apple desserts you may like to try are these Perfect Homemade Caramel Dipped Apples on Parade or my  Caramel Apple Poke Cake, and Glazed Caramel Apple Turnovers found here on MSSK.

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Helpful Kitchen Items:

• 6 Quart Programmable Slow Cooker
• Apple Peeler/Corer
• Sugar Shaker
• Small Mason Jars

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Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter

Prep Time10 mins

Cook Time8 hrs

Total Time8 hrs 10 mins

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cinnamon-spice-apple-butter

Servings: 8 cups

Calories: 472kcal

Author: Melissa Sperka

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cup packed light brown sugar
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 ½ tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger
• ½ teaspoon allspice [or ¼ teaspoon ground clove]
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 7-8 lb apples peeled, cored and thinly sliced [approx. 12 cups]
• 1 small lemon juiced
• 2 teaspoon pure vanilla

Instructions

• In a small mixing bowl, mix together the brown sugar, granulated sugar, ginger allspice and salt.
• In the bottom of a 6 quart slow cooker, arrange the thinly sliced apple pieces.
• Drizzle the juiced lemon over the top of the apples.
• Sprinkle the sugar and spice mixture over the apples and stir.
• Cover and cook on low for 8 hours.
• After 8 hours, uncover and stir. Puree in the slow cooker until smooth using an immersion blender or ladle into a stand blender to puree. Add the vanilla, mix well.
• Store tightly sealed  in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

Notes

You may can this apple butter if desired, using proper canning technique.

To do so: 

• Prepare boiling water canner. Heat jars in simmering water until ready to use, do not boil. Remove jars to fill using tongs. (They're hot!)
• Prepare lids in warm soapy water and set aside with bands.
• Cook Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter per recipe.
• Ladle hot apple butter into hot jars, leaving ½ inch headspace. Remove air bubbles. Wipe rim with a lint free kitchen towel or paper towel.
• Center lid on jar. Apply band turning just until it's fingertip tight.
• Place jar in boiling water canner. Repeat until all jars are filled.
• Process jars 15 minutes, adjusting for altitude. Turn off heat, remove the lid and let jars stand for 5 minutes.
• Carefully remove jars and allow them to cool for 12-24 hours.
• Check lids for seal, they should not flex when center is pressed.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cup | Calories: 472kcal | Carbohydrates: 123g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 162mg | Potassium: 510mg | Fiber: 11g | Sugar: 107g | Vitamin A: 222IU | Vitamin C: 25mg | Calcium: 77mg | Iron: 1mg

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