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    Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Baked Apples

    Updated: May 21st 2019 โ€ข Published: Oct 8th 2017 โ€ข 11 Comments

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    These Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Baked Apples are a delicious and simple dessert that is perfect for casual entertaining.ย Packed full of brown sugar, walnuts, sultanas and warming pumpkin spice, these slow cooker baked apples are a quintessential fall dessert. A #SundaySupper Recipe from Sprinkles and Sprouts | Delicious food for easy entertaining.

    These Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Baked Apples are a delicious and simple dessert that is perfect for casual entertaining. The apples are stuff with brown sugar, walnuts, sultanas and warming pumpkin spice, then cooked in the slow cooker/crockpot for an easy and quintessential fall dessert.

    Slow Cooked Apple stuffed with Walnuts and Sultanas, served on a plate with cream.

    When Slow Cooker Recipes was posted as the topic for this weeks #SundaySupper, I was pretty excited. I love my slow cooker and use it all year round. For all the other fab recipes from our #SundaySupper bloggers, check out the end of this post.

    I think people are coming around to using slow cookers/crock pots for desserts. There are more and more slow cooker cake recipes out there. But today I have something so beautiful and so delicious for you.ย Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Baked Apples.

    I know baked apples aren't hard to do in the oven, but the beauty of using your slow cooker is you can use the whole of the oven for something else and you can get the apples ready and just forget about them for 2 ยฝ hours. Which if you are having friends over for dinner is very very valuable!

    That is time you can use to vacuum the dining room, dust the living room, tidy away the kids toys. Or better yet, time you can soak in a deep bath and leisurely do your hair. (Well we can all dream!)

    Over head shot of Slow Cooked Apple stuffed with Walnuts and Sultanas, served on a white plate with thick cream.

    The apples are cooked for 2 and half hours in the slow cooker/crockpot, after this time the apple flesh is tender and yields easily to a knife, but the apples still hold their shape.

    Serve them with a dollop of thick cream and don't forget to spoon over some of the buttery cooking juices!

    Raw apples on a wooden chopping board with the cores removed.

    The core is removed to make way for the filling, but you want to ensure you leave the base of the apple intact so the filling doesn't fall out of the bottom. I like to use a melon baller as it is easier to control than an apple corer.

    Just cut the very top off and then use the baller to remove the central core.

    Raw apples on a wooden chopping board, being filled with brown sugar, butter, walnut and sultanas.

    Lightly score the skin of the apple, this will help to stop the skin from slitting as they cook. Then stuff the apples full of the delicious, walnut and sultana filling and place in the slow cooker. When you pop them in the slow cooker,ย ensure the apples don't touch the sides of the slow cooker, they can touch each other but not the sides or you will get chewy dried out bits on the apple.

    Cut open slow Cooked Apple showing the stuffing of Walnuts and Sultanas, served on a white plate with cream.

    After two and a half hours the apples will be tender and perfectly cooked. You will probably find that some of the buttery sauces have escaped from the apple. Don't worry. You can just spoon that back over when you serve them.

    Enjoy x


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    Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Baked Apples

    These Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Baked Apples are a delicious and simple dessert that is perfect for casual entertaining. Packed full of brown sugar, walnuts, sultanas and warming pumpkin spice, these slow cooker baked apples are a quintessential fall dessert.
    Prep Time10 mins
    Cook Time2 hrs 30 mins
    Total Time2 hrs 40 mins
    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: Modern British
    Servings: 4
    Calories: 297kcal
    Author: Claire | Sprinkle and Sprouts
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    Ingredients

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    • โ…“ cup brown sugarย  (lightly packed)
    • 3 tablespoon cold butter
    • 2 tablespoon walnuts
    • 2 tablespoon sultanas
    • 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice - see note 1
    • 4 apples - see note 2
    • โ…“ cup boiling water

    Instructions

    To prepare the filling.

    • Place the brown sugar into a small bowl.
    • Cut the butter into small cubes and add to the sugar.
    • Finely chop the walnuts and add them to the sugar mixture along with the sultanas and pumpkin spice.
    • Stir to combine.

    To prepare the apples.

    • Cut the very top from the apples.
    • Use a melon baller to remove the core of the apple, leaving the base intact.
    • Take a knife and lightlyย score the skin around the circumference of the apples.
    • Spoon the filling mixture into the apple, really packing it full and pushing it down.
    • Place the apples in the slo cooker ensuring they are not touching the edges.
    • Pour the boiling water around the apples and cook on high for 2 ยฝ hours.
    • Serve with cream and spoon over the cooking juices.

    Notes

    1. For a homemade pumpkin spice:
      • 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
      • 2 teaspoons ground ginger
      • 1 teaspoon ground cloves
      • ยฝ teaspoon ground nutmeg
      • Mix together and store in a jar (this makes more than you need for this recipe!)
    2. You can use any apples, just make sure they are eating apples NOT cooking apples.
    Nutritional Information doesn't include cream.
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    Nutrition

    Calories: 297kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 84mg | Potassium: 297mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 41g | Vitamin A: 365IU | Vitamin C: 8.6mg | Calcium: 40mg | Iron: 0.7mg
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    Comments

    1. Kate Hackworthy says

      September 06, 2018 at 4:50 pm

      5 stars
      What a great use of the slow cooker! I can practically smell the spices through my screen. Looks amazing.

      Reply
      • Claire McEwen says

        September 06, 2018 at 6:43 pm

        Oh the smell!!!! YES it fills the whole house ๐Ÿ˜€
        Thank you

        Reply
    2. Trang says

      September 06, 2018 at 2:15 pm

      5 stars
      This is so perfect for Fall, can't wait to try it!

      Reply
      • Claire McEwen says

        September 06, 2018 at 6:43 pm

        I hope you love them ๐Ÿ˜€

        Reply
    3. Maddy says

      March 30, 2018 at 4:49 pm

      5 stars
      I love anything apple!! And this was delicious. Yum!
      Thanks for a great recipe.

      Reply
      • Claire McEwen says

        April 18, 2018 at 10:13 am

        Oh I am so happy to hear that Maddy, thank you for coming back to comment ๐Ÿ˜€

        Reply
    4. Catering Wassenaar says

      October 11, 2017 at 11:14 pm

      5 stars
      This looks amazing! Yum

      Reply
    5. Cindy @CindysRecipesAndWritings says

      October 09, 2017 at 9:58 pm

      5 stars
      What a great idea. You can free up the oven and have dessert too that looks like you slaved away at it all day! ๐Ÿ˜‰

      Reply
    6. Nikki says

      October 09, 2017 at 6:19 am

      5 stars
      These look amazing! I love anything apple!! Yum!

      Reply
    7. Liz says

      October 09, 2017 at 3:11 am

      It's been eons since I've made baked apples and yours look terrific!

      Reply
    8. Arlene Mobley says

      October 08, 2017 at 11:48 pm

      5 stars
      Baked apples are so good in the slow cooker. I can't wait to try them with pumpkin spice.

      Reply

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