Best Oven Apple Butter Recipes

APPLE BUTTER IN THE OVEN

Steps:

• Combine apples, apple cider, brown sugar, and salt in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add cinnamon, star anise, cloves, and allspice. Bring to a simmer. Cover partially and cook until apples are soft, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C).
• Remove whole spices from the pot with a slotted spoon. Reserve cinnamon and star anise; discard cloves and allspice. Puree apples with an immersion blender until smooth. Stir in lemon juice and return cinnamon and star anise to the pot.
• Bake uncovered in the preheated oven, stirring every 30 minutes, until apple butter thickens and deepens in color, about 3 hours. Let cool completely. Discard cinnamon and star anise before transferring to airtight containers.

APPLE BUTTER (OVEN ROASTED)

Steps:

• 1. Place apples and vinegar in large stainless stell pot with 2 cups water. Cover, and bring to a boil. reduce heat to medium, and cook 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until apples have applesauce-like consistency. Run mixture through food mill or press through sieve to separate pulp from skin and seeds; discard skin and seeds. transfer pulp (you should have about 5 cups) to large ovenproof dish or Dutch oven.
• 2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir remaining ingredients into apple pulp. Bake 2 to 2 1/2 hours, or until apple butter thickens to a spreadable consistency, stirring every 15 minutes.
• 3. Meanwhile, sterilize jars and lids. Submerge jars in large pot filled halfway with simmering water, and lids in a small pot of simmering water. Keep jars and lids in hot water until ready to use
• 4. Remove jars one at a time from hot water, and fill with jam, leaving 1/4-inch headspace. Seal with Remove jars one at a time from hot water, and fill with jam, leaving 1/4-inch headspace. Seal with lids. Place canning rack or cake rack in bottom of large pot, and return sealed jars to pot, adding extra water to cover jars by 1 inch, if necessary. Bring to a boil, and boil 10 minutes. Remove jars from water, and cool
• 5. We discovered the oven method quite by accident one My dad discovered the oven method accidentally one year. He was planning to make apple butter and my mom had the stove tied up. When it came time to make the apple butter - my father shoved the pulp in the oven and was delighted to discover how quickly it cooked. We never made it stove-top again

OVEN APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Cook diced apple and juice in a dutch oven over med heat 30 minutes or until apple is tender. Stir until apple is mashed. Stir in sugar and cinnamon. Pour apple mixture into a lightly greased 11 x 7 inch baking dish.
• Bake at 275 degrees for 4 1/2 hours stirring every hour, or until spreading consistency. Cover and chill.

NORMA'S HOME-MADE OVEN BAKED SWEET CIDER APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• FOR ONE BATCH!
• To prepare pulp: Wash apples.
• Core, peel and quarter apples.
• Combine apples and sweet cider in a large saucepan. Simmer until apples are soft.
• Puree using a food processor or food mill, being careful not to liquefy.
• Combine apple pulp, sugar and spices to taste in a large saucepot, stirring until sugar dissolves.
• Cook slowly until thick enough to round up on a spoon.
• As mixture thickens, stir frequently to prevent sticking.
• Latle hot butter into hot jars, leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Use a knife to remove any air bubbles.
• Adjust two-piece caps. Twist on tight.
• Process 10 minutes in a boiling-water canner.
• Remove hot jars from canner and place on clean towels to cool.
• FOR ONE BUSHEL: (6 batches)
• NOTE: I used my canner and boiled water and added whole washed apples and boiled until apples cracked open and became soft. (picture is above)
• I then removed the apples from the boiling water and used my Victorio Strainer that takes off the apple peel and removes the seeds all at once by turning the handle and pressing apples into top of strainer. (picture is above)
• After all apples have been made into pulp; I place them in 2 of my roaster pans and added the spices to taste making sure to mix all well. Than I placed my pans in the oven at 200 degrees and left them to cook over night. Before going to bed that night I removed the pans from the oven and stirred both and returned them to the oven.
• The next morning I prepaired my jars and lids. Stirred the apple-butter while jars and lids were boiling.
• After jars and lids were ready I took out one pan at a time and place the apple-butter into the jars and left 1/4 inch clearence at the top. Cleaned the rim of the jars with a papper towel and place the lids and swisted them tight.
• I place jars into boiling water in my canner for 10 minutes and removed to clean towel to cool. (My canner only holds 6 jars at a time. So when they were cooking I placed my pan of apple-butter in the oven to keep hot until I could fill more jars and process. This batch made 14 pint jars.