Sweet and sour! Compared to regular green beans or green bean casserole, this is a fantastic substitute. It can be made quickly and simply. transforms a classic Thanksgiving meal by adding a little twist.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 hrs |
| Total Time: | 10 hrs 20 mins |
| Servings: | 32 |
| Yield: | 32 ounces |
Ingredients
- 10 pounds apples – peeled, cored, and chopped
- ½ cup white sugar
- 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- ¾ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup sugar-free butter-flavored syrup
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon Mexican vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon molasses
Instructions
- Place apples in a slow cooker. Sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, and salt. Cover and cook on High for 2 hours.
- Stir butter-flavored syrup, honey, maple syrup, vanilla extract, lemon juice, and molasses into the apple mixture; mash apples with a potato masher or fork.
- Reduce heat to Low, cover, and continue cooking apple mixture until thickened and dark brown, 9 to 11 hours, whisking frequently. Remove cover and cook for 1 to 2 more hours.
Reviews
Easy big roaster recipe, I cooked it over night , should have done a little longer to thicken it up(i think the apples were to juicy + I substituted honey for a lot of sugar) Taste was spot on!!!! Spicy and better than any local overpriced artisan , Perfect the spice was more of an adult pallet but my child loved it!! and so did I
This is my favorite apple butter recipe yet!
I’ve made this the last two years and my kids love it!! We make it when making applesauce and I’ve found the 10 lbs apples equates to about 12 cups applesauce. I omitted the sugar-free butter syrup and added 1/4C dark brown sugar (or less). Cooking it overnight with the lid cracked works great and smells wonderful.
I made this just as recipe called for, only difference is that I couldn’t get 10 lbs of apples into my crock pot. So I measured 14 cups of chopped apples and found that was 7.5 lbs and adjusted recipe to fit. With a diabetic husband, I’m always looking for low-sugar, yet tasty recipes, and this sure fills the bill for yummy apple butter! Already sharing the recipe!
I did not have sugar free butter flavored syrup BUT what I did have was homemade butter flavored pancake syrup that I used in it’s place (I assumed that’s what the submitter meant…..for me, it turned out and that’s really all I cared about). I also did not have mexican vanilla, I used a tablespoon of regular pure vanilla extract because that was all I had. I honestly did not have time to babysit it because I threw everything into the crockpot, tossed the ingredients together and put the lid on it and crossed my fingers that it would cook just fine while I was at work. When I got home from work, my kids and I were overwhelmed with the smell of awesome. I did remove the cover and cooked an additional 45 minutes, then I just dumped the apple butter into my food processor and pureed it until smooth. We had this spread on homemade yeast waffles this morning–oh. em. gee. This is AH-mazing. For real. Even without me here to babysit, it still turned out perfect. I’ll use this recipe again. VERY impressed.
This apple butter is the best!