Level: Easy Total Time: 40 min
This year I have been picking more than 40 kg of apples and the basement fridge is full of different varieties. Besides the huge quantities we eat raw every day, this has been a period of testing and trying out new apple recipes. In one of my work trips to Canada a few years back, I got to taste their apple butter, a delicious spread served with hot toast in the morning. The memory of the taste has stayed with me since then. Apple Butter is usually made of apples cooked with butter, vanilla beans and maple syrup and then mixed finely. After a few batches of try and fail, I finally found a mixture that brought me back to the original taste as I remember it. I used the Akane apple for this recipe, but you can use any sweet apple type.
THE TIPS TO SUCCEED
1: If you want to keep this spread in the fridge, fil the sterilized jam glass to the edge and close the lid while the mixture is still piping hot.
2: To get a light-colored spread, cover the apples rapidly with the lemon juice to avoid them turning brown.
Let’s get started
Ingredients
- 4 pcs Apples Big (sweet apple type)
- 150 ml Maple Syrup
- 80 g Butter
- 2 tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 tbsp Brown sugar
- 1 pcs Vanilla bean
How to do it?
Peel the apples and remove the center.
Cut the apples in small pieces and add them to a saucepan with the lemon juice to avoid the apples turning brown.
Open the vanilla bean and add only the grains to the saucepan.
Add the rest of the ingredients.
Cook, uncovered until the apples are completely tender and the mixture has thickened. It should take approx 30 minutes, but it depends on the water level in your apples and how thick you want your spread.
Mix with a hand mixer until the mixture is completely smooth.
Add the mixture to a sterilized jam glass and close the lid while still boiling hot to keep it in the fridge for approx 1 month. If you want to keep it longer you can freeze it. But in that case, don’t fill up to the edge as it needs space to expand during freezing.
How to serve Apple Butter?
The classic way to serve the apple butter is as a spread on a hot toast, on a biscuit or topped on hot pancakes. But this spread is also delicious as a sweet add on to a cheese platter or mixed into your breakfast cereal bowl …
Apple butter
Ingredients
- 4 pcs Apples Big sweet apple type
- 150 ml Maple Syrup
- 80 g Butter
- 2 tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 tbsp Brown sugar
- 1 pcs Vanilla bean
Instructions
- Peel the apples and remove the center
- Cut the apples in small pieces and add to a sauce pan together with the lemon juice to avoid the apples turning brown
- Open the vanilla bean and add only the grains to the sauce pan
- Add the rest of the ingredients
- Cook, uncovered until the apples are completely tender and the mixture has thickened (approx 30 minutes, but it depends on the waterleve in your apples and how thick you want your spread)
- Mix with a handmixer until the mixture is completely smooth
- Add the mixture to a sterilized jam glass and close the lid while still boiling hot to keep it in the fridge for approx 1 month. If you want to keep it longer you can freeze it.
