Putting raw apple slices in a slow cooker is the start of several easy, cozy recipes 🍎✨ Here’s what you can make:
🍎 Slow Cooker Cinnamon Apples (Easy Side or Dessert)
Ingredients
- 6–8 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
- 2–3 tbsp brown sugar (adjust to taste)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg (optional)
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp butter (optional, for richness)
- 1–2 tbsp water
Instructions
- Add apple slices to the slow cooker.
- Sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice.
- Add butter and water.
- Cook on LOW for 3–4 hours or HIGH for 1½–2 hours, until tender.
- Stir gently before serving.
✔ Great as a side dish (like Cracker Barrel-style apples), over pancakes, oatmeal, pork chops, or vanilla ice cream.
🍏 For Applesauce
Skip the butter and reduce sugar.
Cook apples with ¼ cup water on LOW for 4 hours, then mash or blend until smooth.
🥧 For Apple Pie Filling
Add:
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp cornstarch (stirred in during the last 30 minutes)
- 1 tsp vanilla
Cook until thickened. Cool before using in pies or crisps.
Tips
- Best apples: Honeycrisp, Fuji, Gala (sweet) or Granny Smith (tart).
- No need to fully submerge apples in water — they release their own juices.
- Don’t overcook or they’ll turn mushy (unless making applesauce).
If you’d like, I can give you a slow cooker apple butter recipe too — it makes your whole house smell amazing.
