Slow Cooker Cinnamon Apples (Easy & Cozy!)

A spoonful of apple slices in a sauce over a slow cooker with apple slices in a sauce.

Slow Cooker Cinnamon Apples (Easy & Cozy!)

Slow cooker cinnamon apples with brown sugar, warm spices, and vanilla. They're tender, sweet, and perfect for a cozy, easy fall dessert or breakfast topping.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Diet Gluten Free

Keyword cinnamon buttered apples, crock pot, Crockpot, Slow Cooker, slow cooker apples

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 2

Total Time 2 10

Servings servings

Calories 192

Author Robyn Conley Downs

Equipment

Slow Cooker

Ingredients

3 pounds sweet crisp apple (about 6), such as Fiji, Honeycrisp, Gala, Pink Lady or Granny Smith
⅓ cup packed brown sugar
⅓ cup sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste (or pure vanilla extract)
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons butter

Instructions

Peel the apples and cut into even slices. Add to a 6-quart slow cooker along with the brown sugar, sugar, cinnamon, salt, vanilla bean paste (or extract), cornstarch and 1 tablespoon butter, stirring to combine.
Cover and cook on low for 4 hours, or high for 2 hours, or until the apples are tender and cooked to your liking but not mushy. Uncover and quickly stir every 2 hours on low or every 1 hour on high to check for doneness and to avoid potential burning.
Add the remaining 1 tablespoon butter, stirring to combine. Serve warm, at room temperature or chilled.

Notes

All slow cookers cook differently, so I recommend keeping on eye on things the first time you make this recipe, and checking on the low side of the recommended cooking time in order to avoid accidentally making apple sauce.

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