Submitted by Leah Speziali
Easy Chocolate Cake
Serving: 4
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 tbs melted butter/Margarine/spread
- 3 tbs cocoa powder
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup self raising flour
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix really well until smooth.
- Pour mixture into a greased and lined slow cooker bowl.
- Cover with a tea towel under the lid and cook on High for 1 - 1 & 1/2 hours. When a skewer placed in centre comes out clean it is cooked.
- Turn out of slow cooker bowl and let cool before icing and/or decorating however you like.
- I used a 1.5L slow cooker. This mixture is a perfect size for it!
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The Icing recipe/method for this cake was as follows:
Place 1- 1&1/2 cups of pure icing sugar and 1-2 tablespoons of cocoa powder into a bowl. Mix to combine. Then you just add milk a little at a time mixing quite vigorously to combine and to also get rid of any lumps in the icing sugar. 1-2 tablespoons of milk should be plenty. I just add milk and mix intermittently until it’s the icing consistency I want, thick or more runny. On this cake I refrigerated the icing while the cake cooked and then iced while just slightly warm and it was lovely.
This was my first slow cooker cake and i will never do it in the oven again! I used coffee milk instead of plain milk and it was delicious!
What a great result then! Awesome 🙂
I made this cake and it was delicious. Our kids loved it so much it only lasted a day
The quantities were too small for my size slow cooker- we only seem to have one size here in Australia?
So I doubled the flour, cocoa, milk, added 3 eggs, and 1 1/2 cups brown sugar and 5 tablespoon s melted butter- worked perfectly for my 6 liter cooker- ! Yumm .
Rob here in Australia we can get slow cookers from 1.5L to at least 7L ranges 🙂
Was yummo!!!!!
For the mixing is it with spoon or a mixer
I have a 3.5L slow cooker should I double the recipe or will it be ok?
I have a rectangle slow cooker with a removable crock insert what can I use to cook cakes and muffins in? Would a silicone loaf pan and silicone muffin pan be best? And put it on the wire rack?
Slow Cooking Cakes Has all you need to know 🙂
It was pretty good but found it a bit dry
Made this cake today and added about 3 tablespoons of Nutella, yummy! I doubled the recipe and the size was perfect for my 3 litre slow cooker. It took about an hour longer too 🙂
Hi Rob Ellard, may I ask how long you cooked the cake for please? Regards, Pamela
Just looked at this recipe and all your comments.I’m going to give this a go tomorrow. Will let u know how it turns out. Thank u for all the advice xx
Hello again.
I usually make all my cakes in the oven.
Please can u tell me can I use the same recipe and then put the mixture in the slow cooker
6 oz flour
6 oz sugar
6 oz butter
2 eggs
If I can use this mixture please can u tell me how long to put it in slow cooker and what setting please
Thank u xx
Cook cakes on low
When cooking a new cake for the first time just keep an eye on it and check with a skewer as you would a normal cake in the oven
Whatever batter mix you like is perfectly ok for slow cookers too 🙂
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Just made this its turned out brilliantly. I used a cake tin since i have a 6lt. I might double it next time or use a smaller tin. Yay
Really enjoyed this. I had to use splenda instead of sugar but it was fine. Cant have icing but had a dash of ice cream with it as soon as it came out. Heaven for someone who cant eat much cake
Loved by my kids! The hardest part was waiting for it to cook. Mentioned to my two year old son that I was going to check the cake and off he goes to get us all spoons for eating! Even the dog got a spoon (no cake though!) A great size for an afternoon tea snack. Very moist and yummy.
Fab, easy recipe. My first attempt at a slow cooker cake and it was a hit.
Great easy yummy recipe using staples from my pantry, will definately be making this again. Served with dollop cream
Super yummy! I didn’t turn the bowl quite enough during cooking and ended up with a small burnt patch on one side – lesson learnt for next time 🙂
Made this tonight for dessert. Had it hot straight out of the slow cooker with ice cream… delicious ?
My first time cooking a cake in the slow cooker and it wasn’t overly bad but i still think it was missing something to sweeten it up but tasted good with choc/ mint ice cream
Do u cook this on low setting or high
High as recipe states 🙂
So delicious!
I made some tweaks as discovered no eggs in the fridge so used 1/2 cup Greek yoghurt (1/4 cup per egg stated), and only used half the amount of brown sugar.
Still sweet enough, deliciously pudding like (so moist!) yet not too heavy! Still can’t get over the fact I can make a cake in a slow cooker!!!!
I started slow cooking only a month ago and I now use it almost every day since finding this site. So thankyou Paulene!!
Awwwww yey I’m so happy you found it Phoebe!!
Delicious cake ?
I have a 4.5l slow cooker so I doubled the ingredients. Cooking time on high was just the same as the recipe says.
It came out very yummy, will definitely be a regular cake I cook.
Such an easy cake to make. Tastes delicious. Served with custard (getting chilly here). Next time I’ll swop the butter for olive oil to make it more fudgy. (Is that a word?) definitely will be making this cake again.
Thanks for your wonderful feedback Rita!
(also totally jealous of your chilly weather as we slip into a suffocating hot summer here!)