Five Scrumptious Slow Cooker Desserts

Slow Cookers are about so much more than soups and stews. You can make some delicious sweet treats in them too. We have our favourites and we just had to share them with you guys. Here are our 'Five Scrumptious Slow Cooker Desserts'...

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Slow Cooker Desserts

Slow Cooker Banana Cake

Recipe

• 3 Small bananas (must be ripe)
• 180g Caster sugar
• 180g Self raising flour
• 180g Unsalted butter
• 3 Large eggs
• 1/4 teaspoon Vanilla extract*
• 1 tablespoon Fine brown sugar

Method

• Whisk all ingredients together.
• Spray inside slow cooker with cooking spray.
• Pour in the mix and cook on low for three hours.
• Once the three hours has lapsed and you can see no wet patches and the sides are pulling away, sprinkle the brown sugar on top and cook for another 20 mins.

Slow Cooker Bread and Butter Pudding

Recipe

• 3 large eggs
• 170g light brown sugar
• Spice mix of tablespoon of each ground nutmeg and cinnamon
• 200ml Double cream
• 240ml Milk
• 3 teaspoons Vanilla extract
• 80g Unsalted butter
• 80g Raisins*
• 80g Chopped pecans
• 15 slices of White bread (cubed)
• Splash of dark rum (if the kids aren't eating it)

Method

• Spray the inside of the slow cooker with cooking spray.
• Melt the butter and whisk in the eggs, sugar, spice mix, cream, vanilla and butter.
• Add in the bread cubes until soaked.
• Gently mix in the raisins and pecans.
• Pour mix into slow cooker and cook on LOW for 2 hours.

Slow Cooker Sticky Toffee Apple Pudding

Recipe

• 1 1/2 tablespoons Vegetable oil
• 200g Unsalted butter
• 3 medium eggs
• 200g Soft light brown sugar
• 200g Self-raising flour

For the Toffee Apple Sauce

• 2 Golden Delicious apples (peeled, cored and cubed)
• 1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
• 250ml Cloudy apple juice
• 100g Golden syrup*
• 100g Soft light brown sugar

Method

• Spray the inside of the slow cooker with cooking spray.
• Mix the vegetable oil, butter, eggs, sugar and flour and whisk until you have a fluffy cake mix.
• Pour the cake mix into the slow cooker.
• In a pan, heat the apples, apple juice, golden syrup and sugar and gently bring to the boil.
• Carefully pour this toffee apple mix on top of the cake mix and cook on HIGH for 3 hours.

Slow Cooker Chocolate Brownie

Recipe

• 160g Unsalted butter
• 220g Caster sugar
• 110g Plain flour
• 60g Dark cocoa powder*
• 100g Chocolate chips
• Pinch of salt

Method

• Spray the inside of the slow cooker with cooking spray.
• Mix all the Ingredients together, bar the chocolate chips, until you get a smooth brown batter.
• Gently fold in the chocolate chips and pour into the slow cooker.
• Cook on LOW for 3 hours.

Slow Cooker Creme Caramel

Recipe

• 600ml Full fat milk (blue top)
• 150g Golden caster sugar
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
• 6 Large eggs (4 Egg Yolks and 2 Eggs)
• 50ml water

Method

• Spray six 150ml ramekin dishes* with cooking spray.
• Put the full fat milk and vanilla extract into a pan and simmer for two minutes.
• Remove from heat and leave it to cool for an hour.
• Put half of the caster sugar in a pan and add all of the water, slowly boil until the sugar has dissolved and has caramelised.
• Carefully spoon a little of the caramel syrup into the bottom of each ramekin.
• Grab a bowl and mix the rest of the caster sugar, egg yolks and eggs. Whisk until fluffy.
• Little by little add in the cooled vanilla milk mixture to the egg/sugar mix.
• Once folded in and smooth, spoon in equal amounts to the ramekins.
• Pour boiled water (Roughly 1cm high) into the slow cooker and set to LOW.
• Cover each ramekin with foil and place into the slow cooker. The water should be roughly halfway up the ramekin. If it's not, then top up until it is.
• Cook on low for 3 hours.
• Then, leave to cool down completely at room temperature. Once cooled, leave in the fridge for two hours, or overnight if time allows.