Crock Pot Applesauce

I have a few traditions and recipes I come back to each fall. One of them is making crock pot applesauce. It's the easiest recipe with only 3 ingredients, but it makes the house smell so good all day and nothing beats the warm delicious applesauce when it's all finished.

I bought a bag of organic gala apples for $3 at Trader Joe's which had 10 apples. I peeled them and sliced them up and threw them into the crock pot with 1/2 cup of water and 1 tsp of cinnamon. I let that go for 7-8 hours on low, but you can probably get away with less if you want to gently mash the apples yourself.

A few recipes call for adding sugar. I don't eat refined sugar, but I also never feel the need to add any sweetener to this recipe. I mean, it's apples - they already are sweet, so I recommend skipping the sugar.

Next up I am going to make my favorite pumpkin chocolate chip cookies...