Slow cooker Pear Applesauce. Turning apples into applesauce is easier than you might think — especially when your slow cooker does most of the work for you! Truthfully, it's hard to be sad about the end of summer right now. I mean, when there are things like apple picking just ahead of us — and along with it, homemade.

This is a great way to use your excess crops or fruit that just didn't get eaten fast enough. This applesauce is super easy to make because it cooks in a crock pot while you are doing something else. Homemade applesauce is one of the easiest kitchen projects you can undertake, made even easier by using the slow cooker. You can cook Slow cooker Pear Applesauce using 6 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Slow cooker Pear Applesauce

1. Prepare 12 of pears.
2. It's 1/4 cup of brown sugar, sugar.
3. It's 1 tsp of salt, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg.
4. It's 4 tablespoons of orange juice.
5. It's 2 oz of water.
6. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.

All it takes is a short prep time, and in a few hours of inactive time. Essentially slow-cooker applesauce with pears added in, this is comforting, cinnamony and not too sweet. Use it any way you would use applesauce--in cakes, on pork chops, or eaten straight with a spoon. You can leave the apples unblended and use them as an oatmeal topping or a lighter apple.

Slow cooker Pear Applesauce step by step

1. Peal, core, dice pears.
2. Place everything in crockpot.
3. Stir well.
4. Cook on low 4 to 6 hours, stirring occasionally.
5. When pears are cooked Smash with a potatoe masher til applesauce like or blend smoothe.
6. Serve or cool and serve.

Homemade apple sauce doesn't get easier than using your slow cooker! This simple crock pot recipe is the perfect way to use up Autumn's abundance of How Do You Make Homemade Applesauce? I love using a variety of apples to make applesauce, for this recipe I used eight. As an Amazon affiliate, and affiliate with other businesses, I earn from qualifying purchases. If you'd rather, you can also cook applesauce in a slow cooker.