Last weekend we went to Baugher's Farm in Westminster for our annual apple picking trip. In our excitement to pick apples we picked way too many! Not wanting to be wasteful we had to come up with something to do with all of these apples and decided to make crock pot applesauce. It was FABULOUSLY WONDERFUL! I could seriously eat it all day! Below is roughly the recipe, we took ideas from several resources.
Just a few of the nearly 50 apples we brought home!
Crock pot Applesauce
8 apples, peeled, cored, chopped into small chunks
Juice from 2 lemons
3/4 t cinnamon (we made 3 batches and the first one was too strong on the cinnamon with 1 tsp cinnamon... go easy on this ingredient!)
1 t vanilla (what really makes this applesauce magical)
1 T brown sugar
A little dash of honey
1/2 cup water
Place apples in crock pot. Add the lemon juice, water, vanilla, and honey. Stir in the brown sugar and cinnamon. Cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours (or if you're impatient like us do it on high for about an hour).
Stir rapidly with a whisk and VOILA! I recommend not using a blender if you like chunky applesauce like I do. However, if you don't like it chunky (or plump, inside joke, HA) blend away! ENJOY!
P.s. I must give credit where it is due... my job was to eat the applesauce, Jason's job was to make it! Shout out to my husband!
