lower sugar apple butter
My wife is diabetic. My wife requested apple butter. Therefore... I looked at many, many recipes, but they all had so much sugar! My wife does not love artificial sweeteners. So I had to concoct my own. Sherry likes it with Gala apples. Use what you like best. This can be made in a slow cooker or on the stove top.
yield
serving(s)
prep time
45 Min
method
Slow Cooker Crock Pot
Ingredients For lower sugar apple butter
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5 lbapples
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1 cdark brown sugar
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2 Tbspapple cider vinegar
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1 Tbspcinnamon, ground
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1 Tbspvanilla extract
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1 tspginger powder
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1/4 tspsalt
How To Make lower sugar apple butter
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1Wash, peel, core, and chop the apples. Optional to peel them. Put them in a 5 qt Dutch oven or the crock of your slow cooker as you go.
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2Add all the other ingredients and stir lightly.
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3Set your Crock Pot on low heat or your stove on simmer/medium-low and cover. Stir every couple of hours. Cook until the apples turn to mush. At this point, I usually turn the heat off and finish the next morning.
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4Transfer your mush to a 3 qt pot, lid somewhat askew, and simmer on the stove on low-ish heat. Stir every hour or so until the desired thickness is reached. Take it off the heat. I place a splatter screen on top instead of the pot lid while it cools so the steam evaporates.
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5When cooled to room temp, puree it, put your apple butter in an airtight container, and refrigerate.
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6Et voila! There's no high-fructose corn syrup in home made apple butter! And this has about 75% less sugar than most recipes.
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