Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake is a super simple slow cooker dessert recipe that everyone loves. This delicate chocolate cake with a bubbly chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream makes the perfect dessert.
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How to Make Chocolate Lava Cake in a Slow Cooker
Aunt Lou here.
Chocolate lovers rejoice! This recipe from Gooseberry Patch’s Slow Cooking All Year ‘Round is the dessert you have been waiting for! Chocolate Sauce on top of chocolate cake with a scoop of ice cream. Need I say more?!
Yum. Oh.My. Yum.
I have never been an oober chocolate lover. While I was pregnant with Ryder, I had some cravings for it…nothing major, but I did want it more than normal. Welp, this Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake has converted me to a chocolate lover.
When I put it together, I was sure I was doing it wrong. When I looked at the end product in the crock pot, I knew I had done something wrong. Then I cut into it and pulled a piece out. I literally gasped “Oh my!” when I saw the ooey gooey chocolate sauce on the bottom and then the recipe made perfect sense.
There are quite a few ingredients on this one, but don’t let it scare you away. It is only because you are making a cake from scratch, but it is seriously easy.
Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake Notes:
- For this recipe I recommend using a 2-3 quart crock pot, like my 2.5-quart crock pot.
- This Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake from Gooseberry Patch’s Slow Cooking All Year ‘Round
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- Use our recipe finder to find more desserts you will love: Recipe Finder.
- As with any of our recipes, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly depending on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish.
- All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline and should always be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.
Quick Cooking Video
And, here is a quick version of the recipe video.
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Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe
Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 6 Tablespoons baking cocoa divided
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 Tablespoons oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup chopped nuts
- 3/4 cup brown sugar packed
- 1.5 cups hot water
- ice cream garnish
Instructions
- Spray crock pot with cooking spray
- Combine flour, sugar, 2 T cocoa, baking powder and salt
- Add milk, oil and vanilla and stir
- Fold in nuts
- Place batter in crock pot and spread evenly
- Combine brown sugar and 4 T cocoa in separate bowl
- Stir in hot water
- Pour mixture evenly over batter (do NOT stir)
- Cover and cook on high for 1 1/2 - 2 hours, until cake passes toothpick test
- Turn off crock pot and remove lid
- Let cake stand for 30-40 minutes
- Serve cake in bowls , spoon chocolate lava from bottom of crock pot over cake and top with ice cream
Video
Notes
- For this recipe I recommend using a 2-3 quart crock pot, like my 2.5-quart crock pot.
- This Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake from Gooseberry Patch’s Slow Cooking All Year ‘Round
- Looking for more recipes? Our Recipe Finder can help you find exactly what you need.
- Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks, slow cookers and low carb essentials in our Amazon Influencer Shop.
- As with any of our recipes, carb counts, calorie counts and nutritional information varies greatly. As a result, your nutritional content depends on which products you choose to use when cooking this dish. The auto-calculation is just an automated estimate and should NOT be used for specific dietary needs.
- Finally, all slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline. Recipes should always be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.
Nutrition
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Hey Aunt Lou,
Can the lava cake recipe be doubled? I have a six quart crock pot.
Hi Shunti!
I haven’t tried doubling this recipe in a larger crock pot, but I think it would work. Be sure and watch it closely the first time you make it so you can adjust the timing as needed with the larger recipe and crock. Let me know how it turns out!
~Aunt Lou
Thanks will do
Hi Chris. I never baked anything befoe. I’ve tried to make the chocolate lava cake in my 1.6 quart crockpot. And it didn’t come out like it did in the picture. It came out wet and didn’t brown with the exact ingredients (since I cut them in half). I’ve tried cooking it for 1.5 hours last month and 2 hours today. Any tips?
Hi Kristen!
Hmmm…not sure, just want to clarify that a lava cake generally is really wet and sets up to a spoonable consistency even in the middle. Under the cake part is a chocolate sauce, which is still liquid and is your “lava”.
Aunt Lou
One of my favorites! Thanks for sharing Aunt Lou!!