How to Make Candy Apple Butter - A Step-by-Step Guide

Candy apple butter is a sweet and delicious spread that is perfect for spreading on toast, pancakes, or even just eating by the spoonful. It's a great way to use up leftover apples from apple picking season, and it's also a fun and festive treat to make for the holidays.

This recipe takes traditional apple butter and adds a fun twist by incorporating the flavors of a candy apple. The result is a smooth, silky spread that has all the sweetness and tartness of a candy apple, but in a spr...

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Ingredients

  • 4 Honeycrisp apples - peeled, cored, and chopped
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • ¼ cup cinnamon red hot candies
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar, or to taste
  • 1 tablespoon ground ginger
  • ⅛ teaspoon ground cloves
  • 2 cups unsweetened apple juice, or as needed

Information

  • Prep Time: 25 mins
  • Cook Time: 8 hrs
  • Total Time: 8 hrs 25 mins
  • Servings: 40
  • Yield: 40 servings

  • Toss apples and lemon juice together in a bowl.
  • Put about half the apples in a slow cooker with cinnamon candies, brown sugar, ginger, and cloves; stir. Pour enough apple juice over the mixture to nearly, but not quite, cover the apples.
  • Cook on Low, stirring occasionally, until the candies dissolve, about 1 hour.
  • Increase heat to High and continue cooking until the apples have begun to lose shape, about 4 hours. Add remaining apples to the slow cooker. Reduce heat to Low and continue cooking until desired thickness is reached, at least 3 hours.
  • Nutrition

    21 cal.

    • Sodium: 1mg
    • Total Carbohydrate: 5g
    • Dietary Fiber: 0g
    • Total Sugars: 4g
    • Protein: 0g
    • Vitamin C: 1mg
    • Calcium: 3mg
    • Iron: 0mg
    • Potassium: 32mg