Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)

Here is another yummy & cute gift idea!
Well...I'll be keeping lots for myself too, 
because I LOVE to pile it on my breakfast!
Like my recipe for Apple Waffles.

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!

I couldn't help myself, one day I looked outside and saw the ladder still by the apple tree, and the leaves on the ground...I thought what a BEAUTIFUL FALL PICTURE!  
So I took a bushel basket (aren't they soo cool!) out and took a few pics of this fall scene:

 {I Think I Can}:  I Love Bushel Baskets, fall scene

{I Think I Can}  I Love Bushel Baskets!

{I Think I Can}:  I Love Bushel Baskets, fall scene

Anyhow...Sorry I got distracted, but it's so
GOOD TO STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES sometimes! :)
I think it helps with stress relief to just slow down & notice God's creation & the beauty of it sometimes!

Now onto the photos of the process 
for makin' this nummy stuff & the recipe...

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
Place apples & juice into stockpot.  Cook down until apples are very tender.

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
As it cooks down, the apples take on the pink from the cranberry juice!  Look at that frothy bubbly stickiness!

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
 Place in batches into blender, juice and all.

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
I thought it was so neat looking I had to take 
a more up close picture!  
(Glass measuring cups work GREAT for scooping hot stuff, my plastic one just about got ruined with the heat---so I was excited to find a glass one at a garage sale!!!)

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
 Puree it up, making the "applesauce".

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
Combine dry ingredients.  Mix all ingredients together & pour into crockpot. 


{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
Some of us can't pour & photograph simultaneously,
teehee, I missed a little bit!  Oops.

.This is the fun part.  

Turn the crockpot on LOW and....... 
GO TO BED!!  

When you wake up in the morning 
the whole house will smell DIVINE!!!!  

Another one of my favorite thing about fall, 
the smells of apples cooking! 

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
Notice how it gets darker as it cooks.  
Now turn to HIGH & cock the lid to let some steam escape, as it cooks 2-3 more hours, or until desired consistency

It's pretty forgiving on the times, so that's nice!  
I forgot to turn it off when it was "done", 
and it went another hour & it was totally fine! 
(I think I was getting my jars all ready & everything)

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
Place into jelly jars-or pints.


{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
(Make sure you wipe off your messes before placing lids on)

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!
Hot water bath for 10 min.  Mine made 14 jelly jars, which was EXACTLY one canner full.  It's always so nice when it works out like that! :)

CRANAPPLE BUTTER
(OVERNIGHT IN THE CROCKPOT)
24 apples peeled, cored, and sliced/chunked (the tarter the apple the better in my opinion)
2 qts 100% Cranberry juice
2 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. nutmeg
1-4 c. sugar 

Start this process in the evening:  Place apples & juice into stockpot.  Cook down until apples are very tender.  Place in batches into blender, juice and all.  Combine dry ingredients.  Mix all ingredients together & pour into crockpot.  Cook on LOW for 10 hours (or overnight).  Then (in the morning by now) turn to HIGH & cock the lid to let some steam escape.  Cook 2-3 more hours, or until desired consistency. It's pretty forgiving on the times, so that's nice!  Place into jelly jars-or pints, & hot water bath for 10 min.  Makes approx 14 jelly jars. (One canner load!)

I prefer mine pretty tart so I only add 1 cup of sugar.  I suggest adding less to start, and tasting it in the morning & adding more if needed @ that point.

{I Think I Can}:  Cranapple Butter (Overnight in the Crockpot)---COOKS WHILE YOU SLEEP!  Makes the house smell amazing!

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USES:  pancakes, waffles, muffins, bread (anything apple too of course), the other night I put it on a pork loin! YUM! 

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4 comments:

  1. This looks SO yummy! It has been pinned. :-) Thanks for sharing!

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  2. Will you please come make all my apples into this yummyness?!? I have a bunch just staring at me and I lack the motivation to do anything with them (:

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  3. Yum! This looks delicious! I will definitely have to try it! I absolutely love the pictures of the ladder by the apple tree too:)

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  4. Hey Rhonda! It's Deonna from the Child at Heart blog! Thank you so much for linking up at the Merriest Blog Hop! I can't wait to see all of your holiday ideas this month! This sounds yummy. My prayer sister gave me some apple butter homemade yesterday and I came straight home and ate it. We actually stuck our fingers in the jar in the car on the way home :)

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