Salted Caramel Applesauce

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     After finishing canning my peaches, I have moved on to apples! 
     I started out canning Red Hot Cinnamon Apple Slices.  I would have done rings like I usually do, but my apple peeler, corer thing wasn't working right, so I ended up doing slices.  They came out beautifully though and taste delicious.  
     I always like to look around and see if there is something a little different to try when I am canning.  This time I came across a recipe from the fantastic blog, Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons, where she shares a recipe for Salted Caramel Apple Butter.  It sounded delicious, but she said that she had never tried to can it but thought it could be done.  I decided to try it out and I love the results!  I made a few changes and decided to turn my version into an applesauce, which can easily be used as an apple butter as well.  

     It is the addition of the salted caramel to this recipe that makes it so special!  It is easy to do in a heavy skillet and takes very few ingredients to get a good result.  I was out of heavy cream, so I used whole milk in my recipe and it still came out great! (It only takes a Tablespoon!)

     When I pureed my apples, I simply used my immersion blender, (I love that thing!), rather than transferring everything into a food processor.  But, if you don't have an immersion blender, your food processor or blender will work.  I think that using the immersion blender alone is what helped my version to be more like an applesauce, not quite as smooth as a butter.  But, hey! I'd use it on my waffles or English Muffin! 

      I wanted to be able to can my Salted Caramel Applesauce, so I added a little lemon juice to make sure that it would be acidic enough, or you could also use some citric acid instead.  
      I was able to get 8 one half  pints from this recipe.  I used some cute little jars that I had ordered from Amazon that were a smoking good deal when I bought them because there are 6 jars with extra lids and rings plus labels and tags!  But, now they are no longer available which stinks because I was totally going to get some more.  Here are some 4 oz ones that are cute with labels at a pretty good price. 

I used 8oz jars. If you use 4oz, you can process for only 5 minutes.

     I hope that you'll give this applesauce a try!  It would make a welcome gift with the warm, sweet fall flavors.  Let me know what you think.  If you don't want to can it, go to Kitchen Fun With My 3 Sons for her recipe! 
      Be sure to click on the recipe for the printable version! 
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