World’s Best Homemade Slow Cooker Applesauce
Nothing is better than homemade slow cooker applesauce. I love the process of picking apples, peeling them, coring them, and cooking them down for homemade applesauce. It isn’t only delicious, but it is a fun project for Little Monkey and I to do together. Don’t be intimidated by the idea! Making homemade applesauce really is easy and is incredibly hard to screwup, so don’t worry, it will be good! We visited a friend’s house that has an abundance of apples and gathered what we needed.
I like to mix a variety of apples for my applesauce. I recommend having at least one sweet variety with one tart variety. For this batch I used Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, and Pippin apples. Pippin are great tart apples for pies too.
You can peel them by hand, but that can be tedious. There are 2 other options I recommend. I use this manual crank Heavy Duty Apple Peeler, Slicer & Corer
The other option is the KitchenAid Spiralizer Attachment with Peel, Core and Slice
5 lbs Apples peeled, cored and sliced
Juice from half a lemon
1 cup water
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
6 Red Hots (The little red cinnamon candy. They are also called Cinnamon Imperials and can be found in the sprinkles area of the baking aisle)
I learned from my grandmother that the Red Hots just add a little bit of flavor that makes the apple sauce have a delicious depth in flavor.
Combine all ingredients in slow cooker and cook on low for 6 hours. I love chunky homemade applesauce, but if you like it better smooth you can put it in a food processor after cooking. Freeze or can what you won’t eat right away. I like to can (jar) the extra for gifts.
Homemade applesauce brings back so many memories of being at my grandmother’s when I was little. I love to create these new memories with my daughter and hopefully she will think fondly about it when she is older as well.
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