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Slow Cooker Pear Butter (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo)

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Smooth, creamy, and sweet Slow Cooker Pear Butter that’s so simple to make! Your favorite combination of pears cooked down in the crock-pot for a perfectly sweet and aromatic spread recipe that’s gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and allergy-free!

Slow Cooker Pear Butter (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Smooth, creamy, and sweet Slow Cooker Pear Butter that's so simple to make! Your favorite combination of pears cooked down in the crock-pot for a perfectly sweet and aromatic spread recipe that's gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and allergy-free! #pearbutter #slowcooker #crockpot

I gave you apple butter, pumpkin butter, and I promised you some pear butter, so I had to deliver before season’s end! I would have posted sooner, but the holidays got in the way and it had to be gingerbread and cookie everything! But winter is prime time for pears so we’re going with it now! Pears are one of my favorite fruits and I’ve always had a lover affair with pear butter.

Slow Cooker Pear Butter (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Smooth, creamy, and sweet Slow Cooker Pear Butter that's so simple to make! Your favorite combination of pears cooked down in the crock-pot for a perfectly sweet and aromatic spread recipe that's gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and allergy-free! #pearbutter #slowcooker #crockpot

Here’s the thing. I like my pears to be in a very specific state for prime eating pleasure. They need to be unripe, sweet, but still crunchy and not soft at all. The best type of pears for this are Bosc (which are obviously my favorite). I buy the hardest ones at the grocery and right when I get home, place them in the fridge until I’m ready to eat them that week. This way, they don’t get ripe and turn soft during the interim. A picky pear eater? Maybe, but I’ll eat any type. From good ‘ole Bartlett, which I grew up with, to red or green Anju (my second favorite). That’s why for this pear butter I used a combo of half Bosc and half green Anju.

Slow Cooker Pear Butter (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Smooth, creamy, and sweet Slow Cooker Pear Butter that's so simple to make! Your favorite combination of pears cooked down in the crock-pot for a perfectly sweet and aromatic spread recipe that's gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and allergy-free! #pearbutter #slowcooker #crockpot

With this magically easy slow cooker pear butter, you can use any combination of pears, but low-and-behold, they do have to be mostly ripe before you put them in the slow cooker! Shocker! You want your pear butter to be sweet and to easily cook down, so, soft and ripe they must be! From that state, you’re just cubing them up, and adding in some spices and sweetener to make it dark and dreamy. Then let the slow cooker do all the heavy lifting for you. Essentially, this recipe is exactly the same method as the apple butter, but a tad quicker in run-time.

Slow Cooker Pear Butter

Slow Cooker Pear Butter (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Smooth, creamy, and sweet Slow Cooker Pear Butter that's so simple to make! Your favorite combination of pears cooked down in the crock-pot for a perfectly sweet and aromatic spread recipe that's gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and allergy-free! #pearbutter #slowcooker #crockpot

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Slow Cooker Pear Butter (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo)

Slow Cooker Pear Butter (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Smooth, creamy, and sweet Slow Cooker Pear Butter that's so simple to make! Your favorite combination of pears cooked down in the crock-pot for a perfectly sweet and aromatic spread recipe that's gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and allergy-free! #pearbutter #slowcooker #crockpot

Smooth, creamy, and sweet Slow Cooker Pear Butter that’s so simple to make! Your favorite combination of pears cooked down in the crock-pot for a perfectly sweet and aromatic spread recipe that’s gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and allergy-free!

  • Author: Rebecca Pytell
  • Cook Time: 6 hours
  • Total Time: 6 hours
  • Yield: 4 Cups 1x
  • Category: Condiment, Snack
  • Cuisine: American
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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Place the cubed pears in a greased large slow cooker and put the rest of the ingredients right on top of the pears.
  2. Cover and cook on high for 4 hours, no mixing required at this time.
  3. After 4 hours, remove the lid and mash the pears a bit before carefully transferring into a large blender. Blend the mixture until completely smooth, about 30 seconds.
  4. Add the mixture back into the slow cooker with the cover slightly ajar and cook on high for another 3-4 hours until thick, mixing every 30 minutes or so. (It thickens more after cooking as it cools).
  5. Allow it to cool a bit before storing in glass jars and refrigerating for 3-4 weeks.

Notes

* I used 4 Green Anju and 4 Bosc Pears.
**To make “low-sugar” dark brown sugar, add about 2 tsps of molasses to 1/2 cup erythritol and mix.

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Slow Cooker Pear Butter (Gluten-Free, Vegan, Paleo) | Strength and Sunshine @RebeccaGF666 Smooth, creamy, and sweet Slow Cooker Pear Butter that's so simple to make! Your favorite combination of pears cooked down in the crock-pot for a perfectly sweet and aromatic spread recipe that's gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and allergy-free! #pearbutter #slowcooker #crockpot

Stir this dreamy sweet and spiced slow cooker pear butter into oatmeal, porridge, top pancakes, spread it on a sandwich or biscuits, anything your heart and taste buds desire! I was surprised to learn that my mom found the pear butter to be her favorite of the 3 butters. I think my heart will always go to the pumpkin butter, but you really can’t go wrong with any of them! Let the fruit butter trifecta live on!

So tell me:

+ Do you like your pears super ripe or still crunchy and unripe, like me?

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Comments

  9. Shanna says

    January 18, 2018 at 4:33 pm

    I LOVE making apple butter! It smells SO good when it’s cooking! I had never thought about making pear butter but now I can’t wait to try it!! Looks easy enough!

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  11. Yolanda says

    January 18, 2018 at 7:23 am

    You sound like my husband when it comes t pears! He too will only eat them hard and they need to go in the fridge right away 🙂 I am definintely going to make this so I can have in my porridge oats. It looks so good and I need to find that bourbon vanilla! Delicious 🙂

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  17. Tiffany says

    January 17, 2018 at 4:18 pm

    OMGoodness!! This sounds amazing! I think I am going to have to try my hand at making this, but I’m afraid that all my pears might get eaten before I get them in the Crock Pot, lol. I have lots of fruit monsters in my house, but I’m okay with that. 😉 Thanks for the awesome recipe!

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  21. Nicole | What She Ate says

    January 17, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    This would be a lot of fun to use in baking, or to eat by the spoonful (many spoonfuls.) I’m more of a soft, ripe pear fan myself. I love when they’re juicy and the fruit juice runs down your hand. The mess is part of the fun. Haha. Although, I do like a nice unripe, crunchy pair once in a while.

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