Baking Desserts In Your Crock Pot

Did you know that you can bake delicious desserts using your crock pot? These days, you can cook or bake, just about anything in your slow cooker.
Here are a few tips to get you started.
1. As a rule of thumb, it's not a good idea to remove the lid during cooking. Removing the lid releases the heat and steam, which can add-on additional cooking time.
2. When making 'sticky' types of desserts, spray the inside of your pot with non-stick cooking spray. A light coating will do.
3. When cooking breads and cakes in your slow cooker, you will want to use the 'high' setting. The 'low' setting is too low to give your cakes and breads the texture that you are trying to achieve.
4. High-Altitude Cooking. Allow more time than given in the recipe at high altitudes, over 4,000 feet.
5. If you don't own a kitchen timer, invest in one. When I use my slow cooker to make desserts, I use a timer to remind me when they are done. I don't want to over-bake my desserts.
Here are 3 easy dessert recipes for you to try out in your Crock Pot.
Cherry Cobbler
1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling
1 c. all-purpose flour
1/4 c. white sugar
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 c. butter, melted
1/2 c. milk
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
non-stick cooking spray
Coat the inside of your slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray. Pour in the cherry pie filling. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in the center, and pour in the melted butter, milk, and vanilla. Mix until well blended. Spread evenly over the cherry pie filling. Cover, and cook on High for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, or until a toothpick inserted into the topping comes out clean.
Lemon Pudding Cake
3 eggs, separated
1 tsp. grated lemon peel
1/4 c. lemon juice
3 tbsp. butter
1 1/2 c. milk
3/4 c. sugar
1/4 c. flour
1/8 tsp. salt
Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form, set aside. Beat egg yolks, blend in the lemon peel, juice, butter and milk. Combine flour, sugar and salt, add to the egg-milk mixture, beating until smooth. Fold into beaten egg whites. Spoon into slow cooker pot, cover and cook on high for 2-3 hours.
Apple-Cranberry Dessert
6 cooking apples, peeled and sliced
1 c. fresh cranberries
1 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. grated orange peel
1/2 c. water
1/4 c. port wine
1 container sour cream
Arrange apple slices and cranberries in crock pot. Sprinkle sugar over fruit. Add orange peel, water and port wine. Stir to mix ingredients. Cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours or until apples are tender. Serve warm with the juices, topped with a dab of sour cream.

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How to Make Desserts in a Crockpot

Perhaps you associate crockpot cooking with stews, casseroles and soups but these handy kitchen appliances are way more versatile than that. Did you know that a slow cooker is a big help if you are making appetizers or great for making delicious desserts?

You can make all kinds of desserts in a crockpot actually. If you have a slow cooker which you do not use much, why not try making some sweet treats in it. Maybe you never thought about making dessert recipes in your crock pot but they come out so nicely.

Some of the Best Slow Cooker Desserts

Puddings, fruit recipes and even cheesecake recipes are a breeze if you have a slow cooker and easy crockpot recipes for desserts are not difficult to find either.

If you are a fan of baked apples you can make this delicious dish in your slow cooker. Add raisins, cinnamon and butter to some apples and arrange them in the crockpot in warm water. The apples slowly poach and the result is incredibly soft and tender apples with a richly flavored filling.

You can make cakes in there too, using brownie mix or cake mix. Spread the batter in the crockpot and cook it slowly for a couple of hours.

Recipes like these are great when you are busy making entrees with the stove or oven because once you have mixed the ingredients together and added them to the crock pot you can forget about dessert until it is done.

Making Cheesecake in a Slow Cooker

You can even make cheesecake recipes in a crockpot. Usually the recipe will tell you to use a rack or a ring of aluminum foil to keep the crust off the base of the slow cooker. Most crockpot cheesecake recipes only take a couple of hours to cook and you can switch the machine off and let the cheesecake slowly cool down, before garnishing it with chocolate, fruit, jello, nuts or whichever topping you like.

Sometimes when you bake a cheesecake in the oven the sudden switch from room temperature to heat and back to room temperature can cause the cheesecake filling to crack and split. This is avoided when using the gentle heat of a slow cooker and allowing the cheesecake to slowly cool down in there. Cooking cheesecake recipes this way is great.

More Crockpot Dessert Ideas

Another easy recipe is baked custard. Combine sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla and any flavorings you like and cook it slowly for two or three hours. Baked custard is really tasty and it comes out really nicely in a crock pot.

You can stew fruit in a slow cooker. Try prunes with sugar, water and citrus peel or a combination of apples and pears. Stewed fruit is healthy and you can enjoy it with yogurt or ice cream. Sprinkle some chopped nuts over the top and you will have a filling and very tasty dessert. There are bread pudding, rice pudding and cobbler recipes you can try and lots more besides. The crockpot is an ideal cooking method for more than just savory dishes and most of the recipes are really easy to follow.

A slow cooker is perfect for making dessert recipes as well as savory meals. There are lots of different crockpot recipes to choose from, whether you want to make appetizers, hearty traditional meals for your family or even some easy dessert recipes. Slow cooker recipes are both a time saver and easy to make, the perfect mix for busy cooks

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Sweet Slow Cooker Recipes and Crockpot Desserts

If you have an old crockpot gathering dust in the back of the cupboard, it is time to dust it off and get excited about slow cooking again. Perhaps you have used your slow cooker once or twice to make classic slow cooker recipes like soup or casserole, but did you know that you can make desserts in the crockpot too?

You can make all kinds of desserts in there, in fact, including rice pudding, bread pudding, and cobbler recipes and even dump cake. Dump cake might not have an attractive name but it is an incredibly attractive recipe because it just involves "dumping" all the ingredients into the slow cooker, giving them a stir and leaving the mixture to cook by itself all day. The end result is a delicious and perfectly flavored dessert which is so easy.

Other Crockpot Dessert Ideas

You might want to make a crockpot dessert and a sauce on the stove to go with it. While the dessert finishes cooking you will have plenty of time to make a tasty homemade sauce (or drive to the store to buy some ice cream or whipped cream!)

How about trying a crockpot fruit crisp recipe? This is so simple. You just need to chop some fruit and add it to the crockpot. Sprinkle over some oats, sugar, flour, melted butter and spices and cook until the fruit is hot and bubbly. This is wonderful with ice cream.

Recipes like these are ideal if you have a busy day lined up, because they mean dessert is one less thing to think about. Simply start it off in the morning and it will take care of itself, leaving your time free to focus on other things.

Recipe for Sweet Potato Cobbler

This southern style dessert recipe serves six people and it tastes so good. The combination of sweet potatoes, nuts, orange, sugar, eggs, flour and more results in a really mouthwatering dessert. Serve it alone or with a dollop of vanilla ice cream, orange sorbet or whipped cream.

What you will need:

18 oz canned sweet potatoes

1 tablespoon orange juice

1/2 cup chopped pecans

1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons melted butter

2 tablespoons flour

2 beaten eggs

1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons light brown sugar

2 tablespoons white sugar

1/2 cup evaporated milk

How to make it:

Drain and mash the canned sweet potatoes with the white sugar, 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar and 1/4 cup of the butter. Beat in the evaporated milk, eggs and orange juice. Lightly butter the slow cooker and transfer the sweet potato mixture to it.

Mix the flour, pecans and the remaining brown sugar and butter. Spread this mixture over the top of the sweet potato mixture. Cover the crockpot and cook for about 3 and a half hours on high. Serve hot.

Crockpots are not just for making soups and casseroles. In fact, some of the best slow cooker recipes are for delicious desserts. Why not explore the sweeter side of slow cooking and make some delicious crockpot desserts for the family? You are sure to find something to suit everyone's taste.

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