DIY - Apple Butter Wedding Favors
This sweet little favor of homemade apple butter is sure to please your wedding guests. Each batch makes 18 small jars.
6 lbs of cooking apples (about 18-20 depending on size)
zest and juice of a lemonΒ
ΒΌ cup packed brown sugarΒ
1 Β½ tablespoons molassesΒ
ΒΎ teaspoons ground clovesΒ
ΒΌ teaspoon ground allspice
Wash, stem, quarter and core all of the apples leaving the skin intact. Place apples in a heavy pot with apple juice. Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer. Cook, covered, until soft (about an hour).
Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Press apples through a food mill or medium strainer. Puree if desired in a food processor. Add remaining ingredients, stir to combine, and pour mixture back into the pot. Bring mixture to a boil. Pour ΒΎ of the mixture into a roasting pan. Place in the oven, uncovered, and bake until mixture sets up on the back of a spoon (about 8 hours).
As the apple butter thickens (after about 4 hours) begin adding the reserved mixture to the pan in fourths and combining after every hour until finished.
18 small sealing jars with clasp lidΒ (found at most craft store).
Add cooled apple butter to a freezer bag and cut off the tip. Pipe apple butter into each jar to about Β½ inch from the top.Β
Stamp the top of each sample spoon with an ampersand stamp. Stamp the date of the wedding in the center of the handle of the spoon.
Use a word processing application to create tags approximately 1 ΒΎ inches wide and 3 inches long.
Cut the tags out with scissors or a paper cutter and punch a hole in the top center of each tag with a hole punch. Stamp each tag with a heart stamp slightly off center.