Slow Cooker Jam: 7 Homemade Jam Recipes

Slow Cooker Jam is a wonderful treat you can make and use all year long to sweeten up your breakfast or brunch menu. Homemade jam always tastes a thousand times better than the jars you can buy at the store. It is so easy to make and your guests will be impressed you went to so much trouble to serve a spread that is homemade. Besides using it for your own events, you can make several jars and use it as a holiday gift. Another use besides enjoying it on toast, English muffins or croissants, is taking your jam and including it as part of a dessert recipe, such as a filling for a chocolate layer cake.

 The uses are endless for this spread of your dreams. There are so many different fruits to use in your jam including strawberry, blueberry, blackberry, peach and apricot. Each of these fruits has their own distinct taste when you spread it on a bagel or other breakfast bread. If you go strawberry picking or overdo it when buying fruit and you know you can't eat it up fast enough, making slow cooker jam is an incredible use for the fruit instead of having to toss it.

Preserving your jam is something else to ponder after you put much effort into creating it. If you can eat your jam up in a month, no need to preserve it. But if you need it to have some shelf life then you need to follow the step-by-step USDA canning process. With slow cooker jam you can prepare all of the ingredients before bed and turn on your slow cooker. When you wake up you can throw your cooked ingredients into the food processor and you will have a magnificent treat to use with your breakfast.