Slow-Cooked Apple Cranberry Cider Recipe

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Buffets are my favorite way to feed a crowd. This fruity cider can be made ahead, then kept warm in a slow cooker so people can serve themselves. —Kathy Wells, Brodhead, Wisconsin

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Slow-Cooked Apple Cranberry Cider Recipe

Prep: 5 min. Cook: 2 hours

Yield: 11 Servings

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Ingredients

3 cinnamon sticks (3 inches), broken
1 teaspoon whole cloves
2 quarts apple cider or juice
3 cups cranberry juice
2 tablespoons brown sugar

Directions

Place cinnamon sticks and cloves on a double thickness of cheesecloth; bring up corners of cloth and tie with string to form a bag.
In a 5-qt. slow cooker, combine the cider, cranberry juice and brown sugar add spice bag. Cover and cook on high for 2 hours or until cider reaches desired temperature. Discard spice bag. Yield: 11 cups.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 cup) equals 128 calories, trace fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 21 mg sodium, 33 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, trace protein.

Originally published as Apple Cranberry Cider in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2007, p112