Apple Butter



cooks 6 to 8 hours in the crock pot




13! jars of the best apple butter!

Apple butter is my most favorite thing that I have learned to put up in the Fall.  It's fun to go to the orchard and pick out the apples, knowing that half of them will end up being my apple butter.  I make it in the crock pot and it takes all day so the house smells sooooo good!  I have added an extra step to the recipe though.  After it cooks all day and before I put it in the jars, I put it in the blender for just a few seconds.  It makes all the difference in the world.  It doesn't look like brown, chunky apple sauce.  It actually looks like the apple butter you buy in the store...but it tastes much better!  This batch should last us until next Fall, even with sharing with family and friends.