My family loves this pumpkin butter, and it's so easy to make in the slow-cooker. It's also very inexpensive to mix up a batch. We eat this on about any kind of bread--toast, biscuits, pancakes, bagels, muffins. This is adapted from the recipe in Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook. The original recipe called for quite a bit more sweetener, but we think it's tasty just like this.
29 oz can of pumpkin (plain pumpkin, NOT pumpkin pie mix)
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp honey (or more to taste)
1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (or your own mix of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg & cloves)
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
juice of 1 lemon
Put everything in a crockpot, stir well, and cook with the lid on for about 2 hours. Stir every 30 minutes or so and be sure to scrape the sides down well. I use a 2 qt crock for this, but if you use a larger one it would probably cook faster. Then take the lid off and cook for another 30 mins to an hour until it gets as thick as you'd like. It will keep in the refrigerator for up to six weeks, although it rarely lasts that long at my house!
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9 comments:
Yum! I love pumpkin butter! Thanks for sharing!
Sounds yummy! I have pumpkin in the pantry that I need to use. Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
Sounds good, I will have to give it a whirl.
This sounds yummy! I've had pumpkin butter but I've never attempted it. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
This sounds great and easy, as well. I'm going to try this and thinking it might be great in the fall on warm bagels. Yum!
If you wanted to be extra thrifty, you could use real pumpkin! I'm thinking of the 3 or 4 pumpkins that I have to do something with after Halloween/Thanksgiving. Then, too, at that time of year, you could put it in little jars and give as Christmas or hostess gifts! Thanks for the great recipe.
Sounds wonderful. Thanks for sharing your recipe and linking up to Tempt My Tummy Tuesday.
Ouuu I actually have that book. I should pull it out and take a look at it again. Pumpkin butter is soooo good!
Yay! I still have some pumpkin puree in my freezer from our fall harvest. Might need to give this a try. Thank you!
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