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Slow cookers have created quite a hype recently. Open a cooking show on TV or a video streaming site, and you’ll see several slow cooker recipes, mostly savory, coming up on your feed.

Did you know you can make desserts in a slow cooker? Try these seven slow cooker dessert recipes, and you’ll see how mouth-watering they turn out to be.

1.                Peach Cobbler

Peach cobbler is a beautiful deep-dish dessert perfect for the summer when ripe peaches are widely available. Since it’s deep-dish, slow cookers, such as Cuisinart slow cookers, are your best option. Let’s take a look at its recipe.

Ingredients

●     Peaches, diced or sliced

●     Sugar

●     Cinnamon or vanilla extract

●     2 cups all-purpose (AP) flour

●     Salt

●     Half teaspoon of baking powder

●     Room temperature butter

●     Milk

Recipe

Add the peaches, cinnamon powder or vanilla extract, and just enough sugar to form a thick syrup in your slow cooker. Mix them up and put the slow cooker on the heat for 10 minutes.

Prepare your drop biscuit by this time. Mix AP flour, sugar, a pinch of salt, baking powder, and room temperature butter in a bowl until all the butter incorporates. Add milk to make a thick liquid biscuit batter.

Drop your biscuit mixture on the peach layer, spread evenly, place a paper towel on top, and place the lid. Let it cook for a few hours, and rest it once it’s cooked. Have it as it is or with a scoop of ice cream!

2.                Rice Pudding

A cult classic easy pudding to make with pantry staples, here’s how you can make rice pudding in your slow cooker.

Ingredients

●     Rice, rinsed once

●     Sugar

●     Milk

●     Cinnamon stick (optional)

Recipe

Wash your rice once, and mix enough sugar and milk into it in your slow cooker. You can also add a cinnamon stick if you want. Also, you can substitute milk and sugar with condensed milk to amp up the creaminess.

Cover the cooker and let it all cook. If you think your rice pudding is too thick or hard, you can add a splash of milk to adjust the thickness. If you want, you can make a chocolate version of it by adding cocoa powder.

3.                Fruit Compote

Sounds fancy? Yet, it’s a very easily spreadable chunky fruit sauce you can make in a slow cooker. It’s also probably the easiest slow cooker dessert recipe on this list!

Ingredients

●     Fruits and berries of your choice, pitted or deseeded

●     Sugar or honey

●     Lemon juice

Recipe

Mix all the ingredients in the slow cooker, let them all melt, and mix for 30 minutes. If you want, you can mash them up with a potato masher.

It’s pretty versatile! Use it as a topping on your dessert salads and rice pudding, use it on your cheesecake, or use it as a spread. Make sure to make it in small batches, as you should consume it immediately.

4.                Banana Bread

Making banana bread in a slow cooker is like baking it in the oven, but with less effort.

Ingredients

●     Mashed ripe bananas

●     Sugar

●     Melted butter

●     1 egg

●     1 and a half cups AP flour

●     1 teaspoon baking soda

●     Salt

Recipes

Preheat your slow cooker with some water in it. Mix the dry and wet ingredients separately. Then, thoroughly combine all the ingredients and mix very well. Pour the mixture onto a greased and lined baking pan, set it in the slow cooker, and leave until the bread is cooked properly.

You’ll have the perfect bread without the risk of burning, and it’ll bake perfectly!

5.                Chocolate Lava Cake

Chocolate lava cake- such a delicious dessert! Have you tried making it in a slow cooker?

Ingredients

●     1 box of chocolate cake mix

●     Semi-sweet chocolate chips

●     Two eggs

●     Melted butter

●     Brewed coffee

●     Milk

Recipe

Mix all the wet ingredients in a bowl, and slowly add the dry ingredients. Mix them thoroughly and ensure that there are no lumps in the batter. Butter your slow cooker properly and pour the batter into it. Cover it with a lid and cook it for 3 hours on high heat.

You will have a perfectly melting chocolate lava cake! You can have it as it is, or serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, whichever you prefer more!

6.                Chocolate Cherry Dump Cake

The name suggests it all. Here’s how to make this super easy cake.

Ingredients

●     Bittersweet chocolates, chopped up

●     Pitted cherries

●     AP flour

●     Sugar

Recipe

Dump all the ingredients in the slow cooker and let it do its thing. If you want, you can mix them up slightly to incorporate the flour and sugar. Slow cooking will allow the cherries and the chocolate to melt and mix naturally, while the flour will help to make it into a cake.

You’ll get a scrumptious slow cooker dessert with the least amount of work! You can make it with other berries as well.

7.                Cheesecake

Making cheesecake in a slow cooker is a piece of cake, and you will hardly have any crack on top. Here’s how you can make it.

Ingredients

●     Graham crackers

●     Sugar

●     Molten butter

●     16 ounces cream cheese

●     Half cup sour cream

●     2 tablespoons AP flour

●     2 Eggs

●     Vanilla extract

Recipe

Crush enough graham crackers to coat the bottom of a springform cake pan. Mix it with sugar and enough butter to make a clumping sandy mixture. In a well-buttered cake pan, spread the mixture and press it until it’s evenly set. Keep it in the fridge for 30 minutes.

In the meantime, prepare the cheesecake batter. Mix room temperature cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, AP flour, eggs, and vanilla extract very thoroughly in a stand mixer or with a hand beater. Pour the batter on the cracker crust and tap it.

Pour just enough hot water into your slow cooker, place a rack or foil balls, and place the cake pan on the balls. Cover it, and let the cheesecake steam for a few hours. When done, let it cool before you cut out the cheesecake.

Conclusion

In contrast to making desserts in the oven, slow cooker dessert recipes taste much better and are relatively stress-free to cook. You don’t risk burning compared to oven and can have desserts cooked through and through. Or you can search to buy vegan wedding cake for something good and delicious.

I hope you’ll try these seven recipes in your slow cooker and will love them all! I know I love cooking my desserts in a slow cooker now!

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