Maple Cranberry Butter in 15 minutes!
Ingredients
Scale
- 24 ounces fresh cranberries (that's two 12-ounce bags)
- 1 cup pure maple syrup. You can substitute brown sugar if you like.
Instructions
- Rinse the cranberries and put them in a large heavy saucepan or pot. A Dutch oven works well.
- Stir in the maple syrup.
- Bring the mixture up to a boil over high heat, then turn the heat down a bit and boil the berries for about 5-10 minutes, until they pop open, soften, and the mixture starts to thicken from the natural pectin in the berries. Stir occasionally so nothing sticks to the bottom of the pan. Note: watch out for those popping berries, they can spit and the mixture is hot.
- Let the cranberry sauce cool a little bit and then transfer to a high speed blender like a Vitamix, or a full sized food processor.
- Process until completely smooth and silky. Note: if your mixture is still hot, take care to cover the top of your machine with a dishcloth to prevent any of the hot mixture erupting.
- At this point my butter was thick and spreadable. If yours is a little looser, you can put it back in your cleaned out saucepan and cook down a little further until it is as thick as you like it. Remember fruit butter thickens further as it chills in the refrigerator.
- Spoon the finished cranberry butter into clean jars, let cool, and then cap and refrigerate for up to 3 weeks to a month.
Find it online: https://thecookingjournal.com/silky-maple-cranberry-butter/