Easy Overnight Crockpot Plum Butter Recipe (2024)

Another fruit butter worth getting to know (besides theever-popular apple variety): Plum Butter. With the sweet and slightly tangy plum flavor and a few spices to top it off, you will have yourself a tasty spread!

About a week or so ago, I found myself with a huge, huge bowl of plums. My mother-in-law said she had them on her tree, but had never really used them much, and would I like some? Well, of course! Who can turn down fresh anything, right? But, then I just wasn’t in the mood to straight up eat them, and I just wasn’t getting any inspiration of what to make with them.

Ben and I started doing some searching. Tarts, galettes, they all sounded good, but just not what I was in the mood for. And then it hit us: Plum Butter. We had just make a big batch of apple butter the week before and had been enjoying it on pretty much everything, so this seemed like a great compliment. I searched around on the web and to my dismay was only finding plum butter recipes that required a lot of attention over the stove top. I’ve heard too many complaints with fruit butters and how easy it is to burn them if dealing with stove top cooking so I didn’t even want to go there, nor had the time. I figured since I’d done some apple butter in the crock pot and that turned out great, I could have equally good results with plum.

It was getting kind of late at night, and I didn’t want to postpone this until the next day, so I figured I’d go with a low setting and see where things went from there. The plums seemed so juicy so I really wasn’t sure if I needed the extra water, but I thought, well, better safe than sorry, and that I could always let it cook a little longer if I needed it to thicken up.

Man, did this turn out well! I literally cleaned the plums, halved them, pulled out theirpits, threw into the crockpot (skins on), and then worked on my night routine to wrap some work up before getting to bed while stirring a couple of times intermittently. Then off to sleep I went. And when I woke up, a fabulous aromaof plum filledthe air! I hesitated about when to add the sugar and spices, but I figured with spices already ground, just adding right at the end would help everythingstay nice and potent.

You may be past your bumper crop already, but if you do happen to have plums still hanging around, this is a great use! (I almost stole some off of someone’s tree the other day because I just sawing them go to waste. Feel free to do the same!) And if not, calendar it for next year. Planning ahead!