What Is Apple butter and How Can I Use It?
Wondering what to do with apple butter? This guide covers how to pick it, cook it, store it, and swap it — with 24 recipes to put it to work.
Where found
Apple butter is usually found in the condiments section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
| In Chinese: | 苹果酱 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | beurre de pomme | |
| en español: | mantequilla de manzana |
Recipes using apple butter
There are 24 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Apple Butter-Streusel Muffins
Apple butter streusel muffins fold smooth apple butter into a wheat germ batter, topped with a cinnamon-sugar streusel for crunch. A low-fat breakfast or snack muffin in 25 minutes.
Apple Butter Cookies
Apple butter cookies are soft, spiced drop cookies sweetened with brown sugar and apple butter, studded with raisins and chopped nuts. Freezer-friendly for months and ready in under an hour.
Apple Butter Spice Muffins
Apple butter spice muffins with cinnamon, ginger, brown sugar, honey, and a generous swirl of apple butter for a moist, deeply spiced fall breakfast muffin.
Apple Butter Scones
Moist and delicious apple butter scones are perfect for breakfast, or snack, or a side along with main dish. Serve the scones with extra apple butter spread on top.
Apple Butter Scones
Moist and delicious apple butter scones are perfect for breakfast, or snack, or a side along with main dish. Serve the scones with extra apple butter spread on top.
Peanut Butter Twists
Tender cream cheese pastry filled with peanut butter and apple butter, twisted into golden strips. These elegant cookies bake in 10 minutes and taste like breakfast pastries meets peanut butter cookies.
Apple Current Coffee Cake
Whole wheat apple coffee cake with currants, toasted walnuts, apple butter, and warm spices. Made lighter with egg whites and canola oil, topped with a sugar crust.
Whole Wheat Zucchini Oatmeal Muffins
Whole wheat zucchini oatmeal muffins fold grated zucchini, toasted oats, and pecans into a cinnamon-spiced batter lightened with apple butter. Moist, hearty, and a sneaky way to use up summer squash.
Apple & Raisin Sauce
Quick 15-minute apple raisin sauce with applesauce, apple butter, and maple syrup for a naturally sweet topping over pancakes, pork, or oatmeal.
Eating Well's Hermits
Spiced molasses hermit bars with apple butter, raisins, cinnamon, allspice, and cloves. Chewy, warmly spiced, and lighter than traditional hermit cookies.
Apple Butter Pie
Apple butter pie: a creamy custard pie made with spiced apple butter, eggs, milk, and half-and-half in a single crust, topped with fresh nutmeg.
Fall Harvest Spice Cake
Fall harvest spice cake with apple butter, maple buttercream frosting, and a decorative topping of walnuts, almonds, apricots, cranberries, and raisins. A stunning autumn centerpiece.
Thanksgiving Apple Butter Pumpkin Pie
Thanksgiving apple butter pumpkin pie blends spiced apple butter with pumpkin puree, brown sugar, and warm spices for a deeper, more complex twist on the classic. The fall pie that surprises pumpkin pie traditionalists.
Apple Butter-Oatmeal Bars
Quick oatmeal bars with apple butter, coconut, and brown sugar baked into chewy squares ready in 30 minutes for easy lunch box treats or snacks.
Honey Beer Cake
Honey beer cake baked in a tube pan with apple butter, orange juice, walnuts, raisins, and warm spices. A dense, fragrant cake with five layers of sweetness and a beer-malt backbone.
Apple-Butter Wheat Bread
A delicious bread is made with both all-purpose and whole wheat flour. Applesauce and apple butter give the bread soft texture and moist mouth-feel. Breakfast, snack or a side with main dish, you can enjoy it at any time during the day.
Apple & Raisin Sauce For Ham
Sweet and fruity sauce made from applesauce, apple butter, raisins, and maple syrup, simmered until thick and glossy for ham.
All-American Apple Turnovers
Treat your kids to this rich and scrumptious dessert that will make them eager to help you the next time you go to make them!
Fruit & Ham Loaf- Slow Cooker
Try this savory dish which can be made with a crockpot that tastes wonderful by itself!
Mrs Fields Apple Cobbler Cookies
Mrs Fields apple cobbler cookies loaded with chopped Granny Smith apples, apple butter, raisins, and pecans, rolled in a cinnamon-oat crumb coating. Fall baking at its finest.
