Slow Cooker Apple Cider

slow cooked apples and spices makes a delicious cider

5 from 1 vote

A tasty apple cider recipe using a variety of apples, orange, lemon, and ginger. Adjust the sweetener to your families taste. We love turbinado sugar and pure maple syrup. Add in cinnamon sticks and nutmeg and you have a great apple cider. Adults feel free to add in bourbon or whiskey on a crisp evening.

Course Beverage

Cuisine American

Keyword Christmas, Thanksgiving, Winter Beverage

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 12

Total Time 12 10

Servings servings

Calories 134kcal

Author Eileen

Ingredients

12 apples, variety gala, fuji, golden delicious, quartered Note 1
12 cups water, enough to cover fruit in slow cooker
2 oranges, quartered
1 lemon, quartered
3 cinnamon sticks
2 teaspoon whole cloves
1 whole nutmeg
1 teaspoon whole allspice
1 inch piece fresh ginger
⅓ cup turbinado sugar Note 2

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

To an 8-quart slow cooker, add the apples, oranges, lemon, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, whole nutmeg, whole allspice, ginger, turbinado sugar, and water. Cover the water to about ½ inch from top of the slow cooker.
Turn slow cooker to low, and cook about 6-8 hours or high for 4 hours.
About 3 hours into cooking, smash the fruit to add the flavor to the water. If cooking on high mash after 2 hours.
Strain fruit through a fine mesh sieve to get all the juice. Discard the solids. If This straining process can be done twice.
Taste for sweetness. Add in turbinado sugar to your sweetness. Usually, ⅓ cup of sugar is enough.
Serve on warm from the slow cooker or refrigerate and use as needed.

Notes

Note 1: I like a mix of sweet and tart. I like to use a combo Gala and Fuji.

Note 2: Feel free to use your sweetener of choice: brown sugar, white sugar, coconut sugar, stevia.

Any nutritional value used is an estimate. These figures can change based on ingredients and portion size

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