Slow-Cooker Pumpkin Butter - 1St Grade's Been Cookin' Again!

Well, 1st degree has been cooking again! This time, every bit you've in all likelihood already figured out, we made pumpkin butter. And, oh, was it e'er good.

Our vocabulary unit of measurement this calendar week was centered around the labor of a chef, as well as included the words 'utensils' as well as 'ingredients' ... amidst other words, of course. I only couldn't resist incorporating a hands-on cooking activity! And it only thus happened that nosotros were every bit good learning nearly the pumpkin increase life wheel ... ya know, pumpkins firstly every bit a seed, as well as then grow into a sprout, which grows into a constitute ... retrieve learning that sort of stuff?

Hmmmm, combine cooking vocabulary amongst pumpkins? Could it acquire whatever easier?? I mean, really, no challenge at all. I decided this slow-cooker pumpkin butter would last perfect!

So, my crockpot in 1 lawsuit once to a greater extent than made the journeying into school, along amongst a few other utensils as well as the ingredients to brand this rich, flavorful pumpkin butter. Then my trivial helpers as well as I laid nearly whipping this up.

It's sooooooo easy. Easy-sneezy, every bit we'd tell inwards our class.

Put 2 cans of pumpkin into a slow-cooker as well as stir inwards a bunch (quite a large bunch!) of brownish carbohydrate ...

In goes the brownish sugar

... as well as some cinnamon as well as pose down cloves. (Two of my boys did a fantastic labor stirring this up. They actually got into it! Notice the two-handed grips on that spoon??)

In become the spices

Cook it for a piece until it's a gorgeous as well as rich night brownish color ...

... as well as and then slather a large ol' dollop on a biscuit (or other mouth-delivery vehicle of your choice). We tried it on biscuits as well as graham crackers, as well as decided every bit a degree that nosotros liked the biscuit best. Oh, but residual assured, there was for certain a fair portion of us eating it take away upward amongst a spoon! Fabulously delicious.

Pumpkin Butter

Source: My nieces (They both made this, along amongst other recipes, when they were inwards 1st grade. Their instructor as well as then compiled a gear upward majority for them that they even thus accept ... thus sweet.)

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

2 (15 oz.) cans 100% pure pumpkin (about iv c.)

1 (16 oz.) box low-cal brownish sugar

1 1/2 tsp. pose down cinnamon

1/4 tsp. pose down cloves

Dash of salt

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients inwards a slow-cooker. Cook on depression oestrus for three to iv hours. Or, combine all ingredients inwards a large saucepan as well as gear upward over medium until the color is night brown.

2. Serve warm or mutual depression temperature amongst graham crackers, chocolate graham crackers, or biscuits.

Enjoy!

(I bet it would every bit good last dandy on toast, English linguistic communication muffins, bagels, or mild-flavored crackers. Yum.)