This slow cooker apple butter recipe is easy and delicious! Perfectly sweet, lightly spiced, and with a rich and concentrated apple flavor, it’s so much better than store-bought.
The hard cider in this recipe makes slightly thinner apple butter. We love the flavor it adds and especially love the slight bitterness from the hard cider. If you find that your apple butter is too thin after cooking for our recommended times, don’t worry; we have provided tips in the recipe and tips section below.