Cooking with Kids:  Simple Crockpot Applesauce Recipe

We love placing orders through Azure Standard since we now have a drop-off location close to us.  They had a great deal on apples, so I bought a ton of them!  We’ve been enjoying fresh apples every. single. day.  We’ve also made a few rounds of this applesauce recipe in a slow cooker.  The girls love to help, and we all enjoy the warm, cinnamon-y flavor and aroma.  It’s so easy–and it really doesn’t even need any extra sweetener.  (If you haven’t quite cut out the sugar yet, you could always add some maple syrup or honey if you think it needs to be a little sweeter.)

I will warn you:  when we cook, we usually cook BIG.  If I’m taking time to make a recipe, I figure we might as well double or triple it and throw the leftovers in the freezer for another day.  You’ll find the recipe at the end of the post (and it is doubled).  Feel free to cut it in half if you don’t want 16 servings!

First, I cored the apples (I love this apple corer/slicer and use it almost every day).  Then, the  girls set to work cutting the slices in half.  They have pretty good knife skills (the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse has lots of good info on basic kitchen skills).

Toss the apples, cinnamon, water, vanilla, and lemon juice into your slow-cooker. Stir it up.

Cook it on low for four hours…and you have beautiful aroma of cinnamon and apples filling up your whole house! Yum. We love to eat this slow-cooker applesauce warm!