Crockpot Apple Sauce - Tastes Like Apple Pie And A WINNER

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Remember this gorgeous bowl of apples I featured

on my table a week ago?  Well, a girl can only eat so

many fresh apples so I decided to try out a great recipe

I had seen on Pinterest.

 I had remembered it as applesauce but really the recipe was

for apple butter.

I saw it on Changing My Destiny

and she tweaked it from

Cake Student.

I decided to tweak it a little more and make

applesauce out of it. It turns out, Cake Student

made hers into applesauce a year later too!

This is so easy and if you have lots of apples

like I did this year, you will want to make some.

Applesauce or Apple Butter Recipe

10-12 medium apples or 6-7 large

apples - mine were huge Jonagold - 

a juicy, sweet/tart apple - enough to

fill a 5 quart crockpot

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp. allspice

1/2 C. brown sugar

Wash and slice and core the apples, then rough chop them

and fill a 5 quart crockpot.  Toss the spices and sugar into

the apples.  Cover and cook on high for about 5 hours.

I didn't add any water and I had plenty of juice that 

cooked out of the apples.

Blend the cooked apples until smooth with an immersion blender

or in a food processor.  

If you want apple butter, just cook it longer until it forms

a paste.  My first batch I ate some and then cooked the

rest about 2 more hours and had a wonderful thick apple butter.

Changes I made:

I had already thrown mine in the crockpot with peels on (theirs were peeled)

and thrown in 1/2 C. sugar (they used 1/4 C.), then I

went and looked up the recipe to see what spices I needed.

I hadn't added water either.  By the time I got back to add the

spices there was plenty of liquid in the bottom and I loved

the flavor with double the sugar so I am sticking with my changes.

Printable Recipe

I started with a full crockpot.  They have begun to cook down here.

This is what mine looked like after 5 hours or so.  It is reduced

about in half.  I didn't peel my apples.  The peels blend right up in the sauce

and add extra nutrition and fiber.

We ate some hot with dinner, cooked some in my

Apple Pudding Pie

and then had some cooked down as apple butter.

It was so good I made a second batch a few days later.

My daughter tried the pie and loved it because it was so

smooth and didn't have chunks of apple in it.

Nothing could be easier.

One bite and I was swooning, now those of you that know me

would know I am not going to swoon over apples  - chocolate, 

lemon, raspberry, yes, but apples???

Well, let me tell you I was.  I love, love, love this recipe.

It tastes like a bite of apple pie without all the guilt from the

crust!

Give it a try.