This Crock Pot Apple Butter is the easiest fall apple recipe you’ll ever make! It’s made with only apples and a pinch of cinnamon, so it’s a super healthy recipe that’s perfect as a dip for fruit and low-fat crackers, or as a spread on toast, or even eaten with a spoon!
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*I originally shared this Healthy 2 Ingredient Slow Cooker Apple Butter recipe in September 2015. I’m updating the post for my lovely readers today with new photos and a tutorial video!
I don’t know about you, but where I live apples are delicious and plentiful in the late-summer and early-fall. As I child I picked apples with my grandparents from their trees and I watched my mom and grandma make apple jelly, apple juice and applesauce, along with all kinds of apple baked goods like pies, cakes and cobblers.
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Healthy Crock Pot Apple Butter
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Looking for more apple recipes? Try these Easy Healthy Apple Chips or this lightened-up Apple Cinnamon French Toast Bake!
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Healthy 2 Ingredient Crock Pot Apple Butter
This Healthy 2 Ingredient Crock Pot Apple Butter is the easiest fall apple recipe you'll ever make! It's made with only apples and a pinch of cinnamon, so it's a super healthy recipe that's perfect as a dip for fruit and low-fat crackers, or as a spread on toast, or even eaten with a spoon!
Recipe: Ingredients
- Enough apples to fill your crock-pot or slow-cooker . Use any variety you like. I've used a combination of all different kinds...it doesn't seem to matter and it always tastes amazing. I filled a 5- crock-pot
- 2-3 tsp ground cinnamon
Recipe: Instructions
- Start by washing your apples in a sink full of cold water. You'll be leaving the peels on, so make sure each apple is nice and clean.
- Dry the apples on some kitchen towels and core them, cutting them in halves or quarters. If your apples are quite large, cut in quarters. Because my apples were hand-picked they had a few had bruises, but in a recipe like this that doesn't matter too much. Don't bother peeling them: this adds to the nutrition factor of this recipe (leaving the peels on adds great fiber and saves you a ton of time).
- Place the apples in the pot of your crock-pot or slow cooker and turn the heat to high. Put the lid on and let the apples cook for about 4 hours, giving it a good stir approximately every hour.
- Transfer the apple mixture to your blender (you may have to do this in two batches to avoid spraying piping hot apples all over your kitchen...not that I would know anything about that...) and blend on high speed until the mixture is creamy and perfectly smooth. Make sure you add every last bit to the blender. You'll need the crock-pot again in a minute and it needs to be nice and clean.
- Add the pureed mixture back into the crock-pot and stir in the cinnamon.
- Put the lid back on and let the puréed mixture cook on high for another hour or so to let it thicken, stirring once or twice during that time.
- Let the mixture cool slightly at room temperature before adding it to jars or containers, and then store it in the fridge for up to 4 weeks, or in the freezer for even longer!
Recipe: Notes
The yield for this recipe will be slightly different with every batch (simply because of the different varieties of apples you use or the exact cooking temperature of your crock-pot) but a typical yield for my 5-quart crock-pot is about 4-5 cups. And because all it contains is apples and cinnamon, it's a super healthy 0 Weight Watchers PointsPlus treat that you're definitely going to want to try!!
Can you add some lemon juice to help preserve it for longer, as well as help maintain the color?
You can if you’d like 🙂
I love this recipe, being in Alberta I use rhubarb and apples. The result is beautiful, lovely color and fantastic taste. I do not add sugar, I just use the sweeter apple varieties with cinnamon and a touch of ginger. Thank you for the recipe, I enjoy it so much, it freezes fabulously and definitely makes a much appreciated gift.
So glad you like this recipe!!😊
I love this recipe. Thanks Crissy. I have made gallons of it now, and my freezer is full! I use it in many things. My home made baked beans, on my porridge oats for breakfast, in smoothies. It is incredibly versatile.
I have tried one variation on it that works really well. I add pitted dates (I check them VERY carefully for remnants of pits and the occasional missed pit). I add them in the last hour before I use the blender (I use a stick blender), and they blend beautifully with the apple. Just adds another taste possibility. It freezes just as well as your original.
That sounds like a great addition! So glad you like the recipe! 🙂
How well does this freeze?
It freezes beautifully in freezer safe containers! I freeze mine all the time.
Looks so good, can’t wait to make it this week. Has anyone tried this with the InstantPot yet? If so, please let me know how long, what setting, and any tips please 🙂
I hope you enjoy it! I will add Instant Pot directions as soon as I get my hands on an Instant Pot!! They’re sold out all over Europe (where I live)!
Yes I just did it in my IP using the slow cooking on high! It worked very well. I also used an immersion blender.
Glad it turned out well in the Instant Pot too!😊
I just finished making this recipe and it is still quite watery, more like an apple sauce consistency. What could I do to thicken it?
Hi Kim, try simmering it longer (for 1-2 more hours) uncovered. This will help the liquid evaporate. Also, as it cools it thickens, so don’t worry if the consistency is just a little bit too watery. It will thicken up even more as it cools. Hope this helps!
Wouldn’t this work better with an immersion blender? Spooning it into a traditional blender seems silly and time consuming, not to mention dangerous, because the apples are so hot.
Feel free to use an immersion blender if you wish 🙂 I prefer a traditional blender because I feel it creates a smooth, more silky texture, but an immersion blender will also work pretty well!
Just took this out of the crock pot! Sooooooooo good! Thank you for sharing. I used four different types of apples, wonderful flavor.
So glad you liked it Cheryl! 🙂
This is absolutely delicious. Just made it today. Unbelievably easy. I will only use this recipe. Thank you.
So glad you loved this recipe as much as we do!
Any specific type apples better than others
I usually use Spartans, but any kind of apple works!
Would you know where I can purchase those cute little jars you have pictured with the apple butter in it? Did it have a lid?
Thank you!
You could always try Amazon for all different kinds of jars and glass containers. I usually store the apple butter in mason jars for the best freshness 🙂
Can you do this with peaches? If so, leave the peel on? Or do I peel?
I’ve never done it with peaches, so I’m not able to give you advice on this. I’m sorry! 🙁
I’ve made peach butter on the stove, just cut up your peaches (I did remove the skin, but have read that you don’t have to) add a tsp of cinnamon and cook until very soft. Put softened peaches in blender and puree, add a little lemon juice to help preserve the flavor. Refridgerate or freeze. Recipe called for sugar but it was too sweet for us.
Thanks Donna!
hi, i did it. i liked soo much! Thanks for the recipe. I modificated the time of preparation because it’s Sticking in the pan aren’t know why. i used 5 apples and 2 tps cinammon but i would prefered 1 tbs because the flavor of apple lost with cinammon if you put more of this. Total time of preparation was 1 hour and a half. 🙂
So glad you liked the recipe!!
Hi ! ,, it s not
apple sauce ?? because no butter ?? but look amazing i will trying of course …thanks,,,
Hi! It’s called apple butter because when it’s cooled it’s spreadable (similar to butter). No butter in this recipe! 🙂
This sounds wonderful. I do not like cinnamon in anything. I prefer the real flavor in every fruit recipe that I make. I will try this when we go to the Apple Barn in North Georgia in a couple of weeks.
Feel free to add whatever flavouring you’d like, or none at all! I hope you enjoy!
I have done this with applesauce and cinnamon also.
Good to know! 🙂
Where did you find your jars? They are just a pretty as the contents and would be great for gift giving. Thanks!
I typically use pretty mason jars for this purpose, as they look great and they keep everything very fresh. 🙂
My crock pot is larger than 5 quarts. Can you tell me about how many apples.
I’m sorry, without knowing the exact size it’s impossible for me to say – but just fill your Crock Pot as much as you can!
Love the recipe. We are big apple butter fans. Just wondering if using a stick blender would work instead of blender?
Absolutely! I just don’t happen to have one at the moment 🙂 Just be sure you don’t scratch the inside of your slow cooker!
Has anyone tried canning this yet?
I think you probably could. I have never done it but I’m sure if you use the proper canning process it would work well!