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Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter

You’ll find the warm flavor of cinnamon spice so comforting in this recipe for Slow Cooked Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter. Slather it on freshly baked buttermilk biscuits or toast for a taste of apple season.

Slow Cooked Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter

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.

Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter

How to Make the Best Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter Recipe

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 rest.

  • 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.
Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter ingredients

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.

Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter

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Cinnamon Spice Apple Butter

Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time8 hours
Total Time8 hours 10 minutes
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cinnamon-spice-apple-butter
Servings: 8 cups
Calories: 472kcal
Author: Melissa Sperka

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • 1/2 tsp allspice [or 1/4 tsp ground clove]
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 7-8 lb apples peeled, cored and thinly sliced [approx. 12 cups]
  • 1 small lemon juiced
  • 2 tsp 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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15 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    Made this but I did cut back on the sugars and removed about half cup liquid before pureeing. It came out great.
    Thank you for this recipe. I chose this one because of the flavorful spices.

  2. 5 stars
    Ahhh this is going to be so helpful in putting all the apples we picked yesterday to good use. Thanks for sharing.

    1. Would it affect the turn out if I were to use Stevia and brown sugar Stevia.I know the sugar can affect pectins and things like that in jam so I thought it may in apple butter too.

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