I felt like making something interesting yesterday, but still wanted to serve ice cream. Slow Cooker Pudding Cake, lava cake's country cousin, is perfect with ice cream. It's also great for when you don't feel like doing dishes, but do want the aroma of chocolate cake wafting through the house.
The only downside to chocolate pudding cake is it doesn't photograph well, so I'm putting the photo after the jump.
This particular version uses a lot of brown sugar which you can really taste in the finished product. If you don't want molasses flavors in the background, just swap out some of it for granulated. We actually liked the molasses flavor, but there are other versions that call for plain sugar. You can also use coffee in place of water for a mocha flavored cake.
So that's the pudding cake. I posted it years ago, but wanted to mention it again because it's such an awesome dessert for Winter evenings. As for the ice cream, when it was time to serve dessert I decided to use HEB's 1905 Vanilla rather than the last of the treasured Graeter's Coconut Chip.
Recipe
Slow Cooker Hot Fudge Pudding Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup 4.5 ounces all-purpose flour
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder cocoa divided use
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup milk I used whole
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil some people use melted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¾ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 ½ cups hot water
- vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- Butter the bottom third of a 2 ½ to 3 quart slow cooker.
- In a medium size mixing bowl, stir together the flour, granulated sugar, 2 tablespoons of the cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Stir in milk, oil, and vanilla. Spread batter evenly in slow cooker.
- In the same bowl you used for that mixture, combine the brown sugar and remaining 4 tablespoons cocoa. Stir in hot water until smooth. Pour evenly over batter in slow cooker. Cover and cook on high heat setting for about 2 ½ hours.
- When ready to serve, spoon ice cream into bowls, keeping all the ice cream cold as you serve each portion. With a big spoon, scoop up cake and sauce and set next to the ice cream
Anna says
Actually, I bought it at H.E.B., but my friend in NC bought some at Kroger. Believe it or not, we don't have Kroger here in Austin.
TG says
Did you get it at Kroger's? They blazed the trail in TX for stocking Graeter's, I appreciate that they'll do stuff like that - it seems like they're willing to take risks that other chains won't.
Jackie says
I had never heard of Graetner's ice cream till you wrote about it here. So of course I made the mistake of looking in our local Kroger out of curiosity. And there it was so I now have a pint of Coconut Chip ice cream in the freezer. 🙂
Katrina says
Just went ahead and whipped it up and it's cooking in the crockpot. 😉 Too bad I can't/won't have any.
Katrina says
Love those simple desserts. Maybe I'll whip one up since there is nothing for after dinner tonight.
Nancy says
Graeter's is amazing! I would never have bought it because it is so pricey, but one day they were sampling it at Kroger, and I was bowled over. Of course, there's still room in my heart for Blue Bell.
Karen says
I LOVE hot fudge pudding cake. When I was in college, several other dorm dwellers and I would have tasting contests every couple of weeks to see whose version of hot fudge pudding cake was the winner. We did not try a slow cooker version.