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Homemade Apple Butter Recipe

This easy homemade apple butter recipe is delicious and makes your home smell amazing while it cooks.

There’s no butter in apple butter; its name is more a description of the spreadable consistency–it spreads like butter.

This fall preserve can be served as a bread topping or condiment; try it with pork chops.

If you have a pressure cooker, you can save time and make Instant Pot Apple Butter a little quicker.

Homemade Apple Butter #Recipe

Apple Butter is a preserve served as a bread topping or condiment. Slowly simmering apples prepare it with sugar, cider, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice.

We love ours coarse, but you can use a blender or food processor to make it as smooth or coarse as you prefer.

Easy Homemade Apple Butter Recipe

 
Recipe Type: Preserve, condiment
Cuisine: condiment, preserve
Author: Julee Morrison
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easy homemade apple butter spread on toast with apples in background
 

Ingredients

5 medium apples, peeled and sliced

1/2 cup brown sugar, packed

1/4 cup honey

1/8 cup apple cider

1-1/2 tablespoon All-Spice

Instructions

Combine apples, brown sugar, and honey in a large pot.

Cover and cook over medium-low heat for 1 hour or until apples are very tender, stirring occasionally.

When apples fall apart and are tender, remove them from heat.

Stir in All-Spice.

Transfer to blender or food processor and puree until smooth

 

Notes

 
A mixture of apple varieties, rather than just one type, will produce apple butter with rich, complex flavor in this recipe.
About Julee: Julee Morrison is an experienced author with 35 years of expertise in parenting and recipes. She is the author of four cookbooks: The Instant Pot College Cookbook, The How-To Cookbook for Teens, The Complete Cookbook for Teens, and The Complete College Cookbook. Julee is passionate about baking, crystals, reading, and family. Her writing has appeared in The LA Times (Bon Jovi Obsession Goes Global), Disney's Family Fun Magazine (August 2010, July 2009, September 2008), and My Family Gave Up Television (page 92, Disney Family Fun August 2010). Her great ideas have been featured in Disney's Family Fun (Page 80, September 2008) and the Write for Charity book From the Heart (May 2010). Julee's work has also been published in Weight Watchers Magazine, All You Magazine (Jan. 2011, February 2011, June 2013), Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine (Oct. 2011), Red River Family Magazine (Jan. 2011), BonAppetit.com, and more. Notably, her article "My Toddler Stood on Elvis' Grave and Scaled Over Boulders to Get to a Dinosaur" made AP News, and "The Sly Way I Cured My Child's Lying Habit" was featured on PopSugar. When she's not writing, Julee enjoys spending time with her family and exploring new baking recipes.
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