Overnight Crockpot Applesauce

The most incredible overnight Crockpot applesauce ever! This homemade from scratch recipe is so easy to make and super delicious on toast. Similar to our Instant Pot applesauce recipe but allowing the fruit to develop even more flavor cooked low and slow

Do you know how to make applesauce? If you’ve had it before you know it is amazing on toast, biscuits, and even pork chops! It’s actually easy to make and really easy with this recipe. Here’s the best of our crockpot recipes my kids have enjoyed for years. (affiliate links present)

Easy Crockpot Apple Sauce Recipe

If you love a bunch of different things to serve with toast for breakfast, this is one of the best. With or without some honey butter underneath, it brings a fresh sweetness to every bite.

Better yet you can make it yourself so you know exactly what’s inside. Then store it for up to two weeks in the fridge. Enjoy it for quite some time yourself or can it and share with your friends. This makes for a great holiday gift idea for neighbors or serve it with our Crockpot pork chops with apples for dinner.

Let’s talk a little bit about slow cooking shall we?? First off I have a few different varieties and I love them all. Each one has an occasion to be used like….

1. This is my favorite 6 quart programmable one with a locking lid so it’s great for bringing to a potluck too.
2. I prefer not to use liners, but rather just spray olive oil inside before adding my food for easier cleanups.

Let me give you a peek of my pretty thang I bought recently. It goes with my kitchen so I can just leave it out on the countertop all the time. 😉

Is it okay to leave the crockpot on warm overnight?

You can as long as the contents are meant to break down and get very soft in 8-10 hours which this is. The smoother the better really when it comes to making homemade applesauce right?? If cooked on high you can cut the cook time in half but this is handy during the holidays when you want to cut down on prep times on the big day. 😉

Ok so you may not have an apple orchard near you but just love fresh fruit recipes that your kids will love. They may actually like this better than the preservative packed bags of jelly beans. Then you can go a step further and show them how homemade fruit snacks are way better than store bought too.

Overnight Applesauce Ingredients

1. Apples of course, choose red varieties of apples for a sweeter taste or green for more tart
2. Minced ginger is better than dry and ground
3. Apple cider is much better than water for a liquid
4. Maple syrup – real is best
5. Cinnamon is optional of course
6. A little brown sugar will add some sweetness
7. Cardamom will give this a bit of a pop of flavor
8. Star anise adds flavor but isn’t completely necessary

Best Apples for Applesauce

Let’s talk about selecting your 3 pounds of this fruit. They are tons of choices when it comes to sweet varieties, most common would be honey crisp apples, golden delicious fresh apples, and Fuji. Green Granny Smith are quite tart and I wouldn’t recommend them, if so just use a few. Any way you “slice it” your house smells amazing with any of these but we love Fuji best for the flavor.

Slow Cooker Apple Butter No Sugar

You could certainly make this overnight Crockpot applesauce sugar free with some sweetness by using a sugar alternative like Sweet and Low or some Agave nectar. Leave it out entirely all together if you don’t want it at all and enjoy all the natural flavors from your fresh fruit.

How Long to Make Applesauce in Slow Cooker

• Remove skins, core and dice your apples. Put into your slow cooker. Then, add all your other ingredients listed in the recipe below. Put star anise, cinnamon sticks and cardamom on top.
• Put top on and set to high heat. Cook for 4 hours stirring 1-2 times during this time. Remove large pieces of cinnamon, anise and cardamom.
• Add softened apples into a stand or immersion blender. Blend until smooth as you’d like it to be, some like some texture.
• Pour contents back into the crock portion of your crockpot. Remove from outside basin of slow cooker and put just ceramic bowl with contents into your oven
• Cook at 325 degrees for 1-1.5 hrs. cooking time stirring every 20 minutes. Serve immediately or this is how to can jam in mason jars.

How to Make Apple Butter with Applesauce

You would first follow the directions below. After it has cooked on low for 8-10 hours, stirring occasionally you would then want to keep the lid slightly ajar (use a wooden spoon to prop it open) to allow steam to escape and help the apple butter to thicken. If you wanted to do this faster I’d follow our Instant Pot pumpkin butter directions but using this fruit.

What to serve homemade applesauce with

The great thing about this is after some time in their crock, you can lift the whole thing out and stick it right into the oven if you want to make it into apple butter. NO need to transfer it into a dutch oven or otherwise because the inner liner is oven safe as is. When done serve with toast or fluffy Bisquick biscuits.

Seriously….I will never buy this in a jar again. This recipe is amazing and I like knowing exactly what is in it. Served on a roll or toast it is a great breakfast. It’s also amazing on top of these pressure cooker pork chops.

Anther Crockpot apple recipe you’ll love

Once you love this I would grab some more bags of fruit and make our crustless apple pie (what we call it). I mean seriously you will go crazy over Crockpot apple crisp. One year we went picking in the country and brought home like 65 lbs. of Fuji, our favorite. That year we created SO many fresh apple recipes it was ridiculous.