Spiced Slow Cooker Cranberry Apple Cider

4.91 from 44 votes

Spiced Slow Cooker Cranberry Apple Cider

Slow Cooker Cranberry Apple Cider makes for the perfect Holiday drink. It is fragrant and delicious, requires only a handful of seasonal ingredients and about 2 minutes of hands on time. Come home to Fall in a glass and get the warm and fuzzies without much effort at all.

Prep Time2

Cook Time4

Total Time4 2

Course: Drink

Cuisine: Drink

Keyword: cranberry apple cider

Servings: servings

Calories: 141kcal

Ingredients

4 apples cored and quartered
2 cups fresh cranberries
1 lemon sliced
2 cups unsweetened apple cider
7 cups water
3 cinnamon sticks
2 tablespoon mulling spices
honey or maple syrup to taste (optional)

Instructions

Pop all of the fruit, along with the apple cider, water, cinnamon sticks and mulling spices (tie these into some cheese cloth so that they are easily removed), into the slow cooker.
Set on high for 4 hours or low for 8 hours
Once cooked, remove the cinnamon sticks, the mulling spices and as much of the fruit as possible
Pour the remaining liquid into a blender (I do this in 2 batches), blend, and then pour through a fine mesh sieve (I actually used a nut milk bag), into a clean container
Pour the cider back into the slow cooker, and set to keep warm
Serve warm, and use some honey or maple syrup to sweeten if required (I usually find you don't need to as the fruit makes it sweet enough). Garnish with some cranberries and apple slices to make it pretty (optional)

Notes

Remember to tie the mulling spices into a little square of cheese-cloth to make it easily removable. If you don't have any, that's fine - just be sure to use a super fine mesh sieve to get all the 'bits' out of the cider

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