Description
Homemade cranberry apple butter brings classic autumn flavors to your breakfast table. Rich spices and fruity notes create a smooth spread perfect for toast, biscuits, or gifting to friends.
Ingredients
Scale
- 12 oz (340 g) fresh cranberries
- 5–6 apples
- 1 stick of cinnamon (or powdered cinnamon to taste)
- honey (optional)
Instructions
- Preparation: Meticulously quarter apples, removing cores and seeds with precision, ensuring clean and uniform pieces.
- Fruit Integration: Cascade cranberries into the slow cooker, combining with apples to create a harmonious fruity foundation.
- Initial Cooking: Activate slow cooker at high temperature, allowing fruits to transform and meld together over four hours, stirring periodically to prevent sticking and ensure even cooking.
- Pureeing Process: Transfer softened fruits to a high-performance blender, processing in batches until achieving a velvety, smooth consistency with no visible fruit chunks.
- Straining Refinement: Press the puree through a fine-mesh strainer, extracting a silky-smooth texture and discarding any remaining fibrous material.
- Final Reduction: Return refined puree to the cooking vessel, introducing a fragrant cinnamon stick and continuing to cook uncovered at high heat until the mixture reaches a thick, spreadable butter-like consistency.
- Preservation: Carefully transfer the finished fruit butter into sterilized glass containers, allowing complete cooling before sealing, and store in refrigeration for up to four weeks or freeze for extended preservation.
Notes
- Prep Apple Carefully: Remove all seeds and cores completely to ensure smooth, seed-free texture in final fruit butter.
- Distribute Cranberries Evenly: Gently fold cranberries throughout mixture to guarantee balanced flavor in every spoonful.
- Monitor Slow Cooking: Stir periodically during four-hour cooking process to prevent bottom from burning and promote consistent texture.
- Strain for Smoothness: Use fine-mesh strainer to remove fibrous remnants, creating ultra-silky, professional-grade fruit butter with professional consistency.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 6 hours
- Category: Breakfast, Snacks, Desserts
- Method: Slow Cooking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 5
- Calories: 120
- Sugar: 20 g
- Sodium: 1 mg
- Fat: 0.5 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0.5 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 31 g
- Fiber: 4 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg