- 8 pounds apples – peeled, cored, and sliced
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons water, or more as needed
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Place apples in a slow cooker.
- Stir white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt together in a bowl; pour over apples. Add enough water to moisten apples.
- Cook on Low, overnight or 10 hours.
- Stir vanilla extract into apples. Cook, uncovered, for 2 hours more.