Slow-cooked chocolate lava cake
I was experimenting one day and made a lava cake. It was OK, but not quite right, so I didn’t make it again. Then, after about 2 years, I thought, I’ll try it again but this time I’ll make it in the slow cooker. It was so much better, and since then I’ve made it again and again – it’s beautiful.
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients:
- 3½ cups brown sugar
- 2 cups plain (all-purpose flour)
- 6 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 cup milk
- 4 tbsp. butter, melted
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 cups boiling water
- Vanilla ice cream or cream, to serve
Method:
- Grease a slow cooker and line it with baking paper.
- In a large bowl, mix together 2 cups of the sugar, the flour, half the cocoa powder, and the baking powder and salt. Stir in the milk, melted butter and vanilla. Combine the remaining brown sugar with the remaining cocoa powder and add to the mixture. Pour the cake batter into the prepared slow cooker.
- Pour the boiling water over the top of the cake batter and resist all temptation to stir. Do not stir!
- Cover, putting a tea towel under the lid, and cook on HIGH for 2-2½ hours (depending on the size of your slow cooker), or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
- Remove the slow cooker lid and set the cake aside to cool for 30 minutes before serving. Serve with vanilla ice cream or cream.
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Written by Trinity Simmons. Extracted from the book Slow Cooker Central 2.
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