It's the post you've all been waiting for in the slow cooker series - Slow-cooked desserts - You've impressed everyone with your slow cooked vegetarian meals, after choosing your own slow cooker and adapting your recipes, it's now time for dessert. Let's see what you can do!
1. Puddings
Rice and bread pudding are two classic desserts to start with when you get your slow cooker. Here are two simple recipes for you to try and remember as you become more adept with them, then you can add to the basic recipe.
Bread Pudding: Place 8 slices of cubed bread into your greased slow cooker. Beat together 4 eggs, 56 grams of milk, 7 grams of sugar, 7 grams of melted butter, 14 grams of raisins and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Pour over the liquid over bread cubes and cook on High for 1 hour, then pop it on Low 3 to 4 hours.
Rice Pudding: Mix directly in your slow cooker: 28 grams white rice (uncooked), 28 grams water, and 224 grams milk; cook on High for 3 hours. Then mix in a bowl: 3 eggs, 42 grams of milk, 2 teaspoons vanilla, and 1/4 teaspoon salt and stir the liquid into the rice in slow cooker. Cook on High another 30 minutes.
2. Seven Layer Bars
For these treats, you'll need a bread or cake pan that fits inside your slow cooker. In the pan, place the following ingredients in this order: 7 grams of melted butter, 14 grams of Jacob's cracker crumbs, a liberal dash of chocolate chips. The same with butterscotch chips, 14 grams of flaked coconut (unsweetened), 14 grams of chopped nuts such as peanuts or almonds, and 14 grams of sweet condensed milk (if you've ever wondered what you can use condensed milk for in cooking, now you know). Place the pan in your slow cooker, cover, and cook on high for 2 to 3 hours.
Easy Cherry Dessert
This slow cooking dessert recipe has only 4 ingredients (only 3 if you leave out the nuts). In greased slow cooker, pour one 21-oz can of cherry pie filling. In a bowl, combine 1 package plain cake mix and 14 grams melted butter to make a crumbly mixture. Sprinkle this over the cherry pie filling and top with 1/3 cup chopped walnuts (optional). Cover and cook on low for 4 hours or on high for 2.
You may have realised that to do a 2 course meal using slow cookers will involve having two slow cookers!
What desserts do you make in your slow cooker?
