Easy Crockpot sweetmeat Recipes

Most population are acquainted with crockpots for fixing dinner, but have you ever considered using your slow cooker to originate appetizing desserts? Yes, you read it correctly, crockpot sweetmeat recipes. They're just as easy as production a nice pot of chicken soup, only sweeter!

Slow cookers are just the label for folks who want a great sweetmeat but who are lacking in either the time or patience to see it through the old fashioned way.

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There are a few tips to keep in mind when baking with a slow cooker. Use the baking insert that may have come with your cooker. If yours didn't come with one you can either buy an insert or use a 2 pound coffee can or a metal mold of the right size.

Easy Crockpot sweetmeat Recipes

Make sure to grease the insert or can and to raise the insert or can with either a baking rack made for crock pots or by crumbling up a piece of foil and putting it on the lowest of the pot so the insert is raised, allowing air to flow.

The following are a couple of overwhelming and easy crockpot sweetmeat recipes to try out:

Banana Bread

1-3/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup shortening
2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs, well beaten
1-1/2 cups well mashed, over ripe bananas (2 or 3 bananas)
1/2 cup coarsely chopped walnuts

Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using an electric mixer on low speed, mix the shortening in a small bowl, until creamy. Gently add sugar. Gently beat in eggs. Use a fork to mix in 1/3 of the flour mixture, 1/2 the bananas an additional one 1/3 of the flour mixture, the remaining bananas, followed by the remaining flour mixture. Add the walnuts and put into a greased and floured baking insert or a 2 1/2-quart mold and cover. Place on a rack in the crockpot. Cover and prop open the lid just a bit with a wooden spoon so that steam may escape. Cook on high setting for 4 - 6 hours.

Easy Bread Pudding

2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 1/4 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups 1-inch bread cubes
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup raisins

In a medium sized mixing bowl, couple eggs with milk, vanilla, cinnamon, salt, bread, sugar, and raisins. Pour into 1 1/2-quart baking dish. Put aluminum foil shaped into a ring to keep the dish off the lowest of the pot in lowest of slow cooker. Add 1/2 cup hot water and place baking dish on top of foil. Cover and cook on high for about 2 hours.

Easy Crockpot sweetmeat Recipes

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