Want to usher in the fall season with the yummy scent of baking apples with cinnamon and vanilla? If so, here is the right recipe for you!
Clean Crock Pot Cinnamon Vanilla Applesauce from He and She Eat Clean
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Ingredients:
8 medium-size Granny Smith apples, peeled (7 large Granny Smith apples can be substituted)
Juice of 1 lemon
1/2 c water
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 tbsp maple sugar flakes
2 tsp pure vanilla extract (avoid HFCS)
Directions:
1. Peel apples and cut into quarters, careful to core apples as well (seeds are bad!). Place in bottom of crock pot slow cooker.
2. Add lemon juice, water, cinnamon, nutmeg, maple sugar flakes and pure vanilla extract.
3. Stir briefly - just enough to mix ingredients.
4. Cook on low for 2 hours and then raise temperature to high for 1.5 hours.
5. Stir, slightly mashing any apple chunks, serve and enjoy!
