Easy Homemade Apple Sauce

I love fall in Roswell, Georgia!  The days are warm, the nights are cool and there is so much to see a do.  Pumpkin patches, apple picking, corn mazes and hay rides.  These were all things on my daughters Fall Bucket List.  Lexi's Bucket List also included making apple sauce.  I love making apple sauce with fresh picked apples from Ellijay, but with 2 kids--one a toddler, the thought of picking apples…. Enter the Farmers Market!  Fresh apples AND I can make smaller batches, which means no canning! It also means my daughter who LOVES to cook (she has her own you tube channel!!!) gets to cook every week! 

Today I’m going to share our 2021 recipe for Apple Sauce.  It’s easy.  It’s fast.  It has no added sweeteners.  And we use the instant pot!  My old recipe is buried somewhere in a box in the storage unit and it tasted like apple pie filling!  It contained an array of spices and apples dumped in a crock pot to cook for several hours…. Well if you’ve ever cooked with a 5 year old, fast, easy, with as few ingredients as possible are important criteria!  A quick search in the internet helped me figure out the timing in the instant pot, the rest was what I had in my pantry.  (No idea what happened to my favorite apple sauce spices…) 

Lexi’s 3 Ingredient Apple Sauce

Apples (cored, sliced and chunked) 

Pumpkin Pie Spice 

1/4 cup of water (because an Instant Pot requires water to get to pressure) 

Lexi also has a secret ingredient thanks to her amazing teacher at Atlanta Academy.  No need to run to the store, or stress over finding it in the cupboard as we all have it—and in my world it’s what makes home cooked food so amazing—a little bit of love! 

So back to how we made it.  My job is to use the kitchen gadget that cores and slices the apple.  (Only because she’s 5 and it was a little to difficult). Lexi’s job was to but each slice into 3 pieces.  Jack’s job was to put them (skin and all) into the instant pot and add 1/4 cup of water.  Lexi added the Pumpkin Pie spice.  No measuring spoon—just sprinkle some on top.  Put on the lid, set it to manual for 5 minutes, and natural release!  Then we used our potato masher (and one time a spoon) to break up the apples and stir everything together.  And in less than 30 minutes (including prep time) you have apple sauce!  

We are making weekly batches! And I’ve learned a couple of things.  We cut apples until we are bored!  However 6-8 seems to be a sweet spot where the apple sauce isn’t too watery! You can eat it hot or cold.  It makes a great dessert and is a loved addition to her lunch box. Most important it’s teaching the kids to cook and we are spending quality time creating together!  

Oh—and the skin…. Well I leave the skin on.  I love the texture in the apple sauce, I’m too lazy to peel the apples, AND most of the nutritional value of an apple is in the skin, so…. 

So easy a 2 & 5 year old can do it!  

We’d love to hear how yours turns out! 






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