Comments on: slow cooker salted caramel pear apple butter

By: Rachel Hile

Rachel Hile — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:37:03 +0000

I love this recipe! This morning I made these muffins with a jar of it and thought others might enjoy it, too:

Apple Butter Muffins

1 1/3 C. white flour
2/3 C. whole wheat flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 C. sugar
1/2 C. vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 C. salted caramel apple-pear butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 C. water

Topping:
1/2 C. oats
1/3 C. brown sugar
3 T. butter

Mix together dry ingredients; add in wet ingredients and mix. Spoon into greased muffin tins. Mix together topping ingredients and sprinkle over muffin batter. Bake muffins at 375 for 18 minutes or until done. Makes 15 muffins.

By: Maribeth

Maribeth — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:13:16 +0000

Gosh, I would love to try this… If I halved the recipe would that affect the cooking time?? I don’t work with slow cookers often enough to know this sort of thing…

By: Allie

Allie — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:55:52 +0000

Epic success! I’m so glad I made this, turned out great. Thanks so much for posting the recipe! I did do a couple of things different – I didn’t want to sweeten it right away as I wouldn’t be home to watch it and ensure it wasn’t burning, so I added the brown sugar later on. Didn’t have vanilla bean, so just added some vanilla extract. Also tossed in a splash of Sailor Jerry’s rum, freshly grated nutmeg and cinnamon. Just one problem – I’m now not sure whether I really want to give it away! )

By: tami mayhew

tami mayhew — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:16:59 +0000

This is so very good and just different enough that people will take notice. I must have used some pretty sour apples because I had to add another 1/2 cup of brown sugar at the 8 hour mark, and I added about 1/4 tsp of freshly grated nutmeg because it’s such a holiday tasting spice. Thank you for posting this. I made cinnamon scones and giving them away with this delicious apple butter!

By: Corey @ Family Fresh Meals

Corey @ Family Fresh Meals — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:57:31 +0000

I could impress a ton a friends with this recipe hehehe

By: slow cooker apple pear butter | ugly food tastes better.

slow cooker apple pear butter | ugly food tastes better. — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:15:18 +0000

[...] pears for awhile, and last week I got some apples. My friend Emily at Nomnivorous happened to make Salted Caramel Apple Pear Butter this week, and I thought I would do the same. I am not a sweets person, I like fruit on its own. I [...]

By: nomnivorous

nomnivorous — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:27:19 +0000

MP, I don’t have any experience cooking apple butter from apple sauce. Not to be a total food snob, but is the sauce homemade? Or a good quality unsweetened sauce? If so, you’re probably fine. But I’m not sure how much to use. You could let it cook down until almost done and THEN add the brown sugar to taste, along with salt.
If you experiment with this, let me know how it turns out!

By: nomnivorous

nomnivorous — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:25:26 +0000

Michon,
You might want to scale it back with a 4 qt crockpot. Half of 3/4th of the original recipe, or whatever will fit in the pot!
And yes, a ‘spent’ vanilla bean would be one that’s already scraped. You’re welcome to use a fresh, new bean but it’s really not necessary. But with the slow cooking, an already scraped bean will still let off a lot of flavor. I like to store spent beans in sugar, giving you vanilla sugar. Then you can just retrieve a whole or half pod as you need.

By: michon

michon — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:09:41 +0000

this looks like a recipe to try! i have a 4 qt. crockpot — do you think i should half the recipe? and when you say a “spent” vanilla bean, do you mean one already scraped? thank you!

By: Angela Watts

Angela Watts — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:32:49 +0000

I am finally out of apples, but this is so very tempting….I’m with you on being “over” the apple and cinnamon apple butter pairing. The one I made this season I used nutmeg, clove and vanilla instead plus a small dash of cinnamon.