Slow Cooker Apple Butter

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 lbs apples, any variety

  Pink Lady, Fuji, Golden Delicious, or Braeburn recommended
• 8 pitted Medjool dates

  diced
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ⅛ teaspoon salt

Instructions

• 1 Peel and dice apples and place into a large mixing bowl. Roughly chop pitted
  dates and add to apples.
• 2 Season apples and dates with cinnamon, vanilla, and salt and mix well.
• 3 Add apple mixture to a slow cooker and cook on HIGH for 3 hours, or until apples
  are golden and completely tender.
• 4 Puree apples using an immersion blender, or, allow apples to cool slightly
  before transering to a blender.
• 5 Tip: if butter is thinner than preferred once blended, place back into the slow
  cooker to continue cooking down.

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