Slow Cooker Baked Apples
31 Comments Apr 23, 2024
Updated Jun 05, 2024
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Tender Slow Cooker Baked Apples made easy with granola, melted butter, and maple syrup! Top with ice cream or whipped cream. This sweet treat is sure to be enjoyed by the whole family!
If you have plenty of apples make these easy baked apples. You may also like my slow cooker apple butter or my slow cooker poached pears.
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Why You’ll Love These Crock Pot Baked Apples
This recipe puts a whole new spin on baked apples and instead of peeling, slicing, and adding other ingredients to the slow cooker, you’ll carve out the apples to make a bed for tasty granola topped with melted butter and maple syrup.
If you’re looking for a quick and easy delicious recipe that’s light on ingredients, quick on prep time, and done cooking in as little as a couple of hours – these slow cooker baked apples are the way to go. Make them to wow guests or for the family to enjoy over a relaxing weekend.
Recipe Ingredients
- Apples – Any variety of apple works, I use medium-sized Gala. Large apples work well but may take up more space.
- Granola – The granola is just the perfect crispy topping since the slow cooker can’t brown things.
- Melted salted butter – Makes the apples extra decadent.
- Maple syrup – or honey works here, too, for this delicious dessert! (The full recipe is in the recipe card below, after the photos).
How to make Slow Cooker Baked Apples:
Step One – Cut the tops off the apples with a knife, then gut them with a melon baller. If you don’t have a melon baller, a round measuring teaspoon will do the trick. Leave the apples unpeeled.
Step Two – Add the granola to the center of the apples.
Step Three – Drizzle over the melted butter.
Step Four – Pour over the maple syrup.
Step Five – Place the lid on the slow cooker and cook on HIGH for 2.5 – 3 hours. Serve the cooked apples as is or with the suggestions mentioned below and enjoy!
How to serve these apples?
- Put one apple (or half if they are large) in a small bowl and top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. Serve warm for the best taste.
- Turn it into cinnamon apples recipe by adding ground cinnamon on top or mixing it with the butter before cooking. Brown sugar is a great addition as well.
- These can also be a delicious side dish to serve alongside a main course meal. It’s the perfect dessert that can be enjoyed with breakfast (think pancakes)!
Recipe FAQs
If you want your apples to be extra tender, cook on HIGH for 4 hours.
Yes! Sprinkle about a half teaspoon of cinnamon over these apples, it will taste great and also make the house smell amazing.
Place any remaining apples in an airtight container and keep on the counter for the day and store in the fridge for up to 4 days.
Sure! You can play around with using Granny Smith or pink lady apples. Either way, this recipe is absolutely delicious! You can also try this recipe with apple slices. The cooking time may be a little different.
More apple recipes to make in the crockpot:
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Slow Cooker Baked Apples
Ingredients
- 5 medium-sized gala apples
- 1 1/4 cups granola
- 3 Tbsp. melted butter
- 5 tsp. maple syrup
- ice cream or whipped cream for serving, if making for dessert
Slow Cooker Size:
- 5 quart or larger
Instructions
- Cut a layer off the top of the apples with a knife. With a melon baller tool, or a measuring teaspoon, remove the core and seeds from each apple.
- Pack 1/4 cup granola into each apple, and place into the slow cooker.
- Drizzle the apples evenly with the melted butter, and add a teaspoon of maple syrup to each apple.
- Cover, and cook on high for 2.5 – 3 hours until tender, but not falling apart.
- Serve as is, or add ice cream or whipped cream. ENJOY!
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Nutrition
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This sounds like something I’d like to try. I usually cook apples by coring and filling with mince pie filling, but the juices run out the bottom. I like the idea of using a melon baller to remove the core so the bottom stays intact and the flavor of the filling stays inside! Thanks.
Mushy nasty. Lotsa work and not impressed. I didn’t even cook them for 2.5 hours on high. Disappointing.
I made this but not with granola.
Instead I used what I had on hand which was oatmeal & Special K w/Raspberries cereal. I added cinnamon, brown sugar, a little warm water & mixed it thoroughly. I let the mixture sit for a little while but kept mixing to soften it. I then melted butter added it to the muxture. Cored the apples & then decided to squeeze lemon juice into the mixture as well to cut some of the sweetness.
In the rock pot I put some V8 berry fruit juice & water, squeezed a little lemon juice into it. Then I laid the 4 stuffed apples into the pot & melted some more butter drizzled over the apples. Sprinled more oatmeal, brown sugar and cinnamon- covered & cooked for 3 hrs in crockpot delicious!
It is an easy & tasty recipe depending on how you tweak it which can be eaten as a snack, breakfast or dessert 🙂
That’s an entirely new recipe. About the only thing in common with the original recipe are the apples. Maybe next time don’t advertise your new recipe on someone else’s post.
Right!
I love this idea!! Going to try it. I don’t buy granola. So this is a great alternative. Thanks for the idea.
You need to start your own recipe blog if not commenting on the actually recipe posted. Seems very rude to completely change this site’s recipe.
I did this,they sat for 2 hours and my apples are brown? Dont look very good lol
What kind of apples did you use?
Do you think that you could use oats instead of granola?
You could, but you would want to add flavoring to them 🙂