Cranberry Apple Sauce

Apples and Cranberries, they're good friends

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I’m a fan of cranberries.

A big fan of cranberries.

I make home-made cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I used my homemade cranberry sauce to make a festive holiday banana bread.

I like making apple sauce in my slow cooker, sure it takes longer than making it on the stove top, but I love that my apple sauce can cook all night while I’m sleeping.

I decided to add cranberries to my apple sauce for a fun, fall flavor.

Because I added cranberries, which are tart by nature, I’m adding brown sugar and apple juice. I want sweet cranberry apple sauce, not a bowl full of pucker. 😀

Cranberry Apple Sauce

slow cooker style

The ingredients:

• 2 pounds of apples, diced and mostly peeled
• 2 1/2 cups of fresh or frozen cranberries
• 2-3 cups of brown sugar (depending on how sweet you like it)
• 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 6 ounces of apple juice

What to do:

• Place the apples and cranberries into the slow cooker
• add the spices, mix well
• add the apple juice
• cook on LOW for 10-12 hours (I like to cook mine overnight)

Cooked for 12 hours

• allow to cool for at least 2 hours, I place my cooked fruit into the fridge. My slow cooker has a removable crockery piece, so I remove it and place it into the fridge.

drain off the syrup-ey sauce

• Once the fruit is cool, drain off the sauce, I save my sauce for other things.
• Add the fruit to a food processor in batches and process them until they are at the smooth-ness level you prefer.

process them until smooth

• Store in the fridge for 1-2 weeks. The apple juice allows for the up to 2 weeks storage. My apple sauce never lasts that long though.

jar it up, for cuteness

The sauce is creamy and airy. We really enjoy it and if you try it, I hope you enjoy it too.

Nom..Nom..Nom

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