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!
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.
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.
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
- 8 Medium-Sized Pears* (cubed, cores and stems removed)
- ½ Cup Erythritol
- ½ Cup Dark Brown Sugar**
- 1½ Tsp Cinnamon
- ½ Tsp Allspice
- ½ Tsp Ground Cloves
- 1 Tsp Lemon Juice
- 1 Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- Place the cubed pears in a greased large slow cooker and put the rest of the ingredients right on top of the pears.
- Cover and cook on high for 4 hours, no mixing required at this time.
- 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.
- 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).
- Allow it to cool a bit before storing in glass jars and refrigerating for 3-4 weeks.
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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My kids would love this!
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Glad you think so!
Oh yummy! My babies loved pear butter when they were little!
So yummy!
I have a pear tree in my backyard. I’m hoping I get a good crop this year because I’m definitely trying this if I do!
Wow, lucky you!
I love pear butter! My grandmother made dozens of jars every year, and I did more than my share of work emptying them! I’ve never made it myself, but would like to give it a try!
I think you need to bring back the tradition then!
This looks delicious and a perfect topping especially on porridge. I shall be trying this.
Yes! Such a yummy addition!
That pear butter looks delicious!
It is such a great topping!
This sounds like such a unique butter to make, and a great way to use the slow cooker. I will need to give it a try!
Fruit butters are the best!
This looks so delicious! So easy too!
Super simple!
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!
Anytime you have fruit and cozy spices simmering down in the slow cooker….the aromas!
Never been a huge fan of pears but this has me intrigued…going to give this a go.
It is so yummy!
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 🙂
He knows what’s up then! Haha!
So good in some hot porridge!
This looks delicious and I eat gluten-free so this recipe is perfect to try!
This obviously is gluten-free though. It’s fruit. So nothing special.
My Dad used to make apple butter. I haven’t thought about it in years. You’ve convinced me to try your recipe. Thanks so much for this!
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Fruit butters are just the best!
My tummy is rumbling like crazy! So so so yummy looking.
I bet!
This looks so good!!
Thanks!
I love making apple butter in my slow cooker but never even thought of pear! Can’t wait to try this!!
Pear is game changing!
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!
The week I made this, I bought a WHOLE lot of extra!
This sounds heavenly – i could eat it right out of the jar!
Spooning it straight is totally acceptable 😉
Omg I never thought of its existence! I am so excited to try this, thank you!
It is a fantastic sweet spread!
This sounds delicious! I may have to spread my wings and try making this.
There is nothing difficult about this! Haha!
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.
The taste changes when they get ripe…not so good!
Love this idea (+ yay for slow cookers)! I’ve always wanted to try making my own fruit butter! 😀
No time to waste now!
Yum, yum! I’ve made apple butter, but never pear butter. This sounds so good!
Add this to the list then!
Mm I never thought to make pear butter! This would be tasty on pancakes!
Yes it would!
Pears are my favorite! I’ve never tried pear butter, so I’ll be saving this recipe to make really soon!
You’re in for a pleasant surprise 😉
OH MY. Drooling! Definitely want to try this on a biscuit or in oatmeal like you suggested!
It is so good! Perfect way to sweeten anything up!
I love apple butter so I’d really like to try pear butter as well! I’m really thinking I have to invest in a slow cooker sometime soon.
That is an URGENT need!
I just tried apple butter this summer. I am excited to try pear butter too!
You will love it just as much!
Haha, I am the opposite kind of pear eater! I like when they’re soft. This pear butter sounds amaaaaazing!
O no, haha! Unripe all the way! I hate when they’re all mushy 😛