McCartney Jennifer - Slow cooker dump desserts: cozy sweets and easy treats to make ahead

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ERNESTINE ULMER SLOW COOKER DUMP DESSERTS CONTENTS

Slow cookers arent just for dinner anymore! Sweet, sumptuous, and gooey desserts are as easy as 1-2-3 with this guide to the best slow cooker treats imaginable. Forget fancy ombr layer cakes and complicated icing creations that never look quite the same at home as when you saw them on Pinterest. Slow Cooker Dump Desserts features more than 50 straightforward, (mostly) five-ingredients-or-fewer desserts that you can make in a few hours. Whether its a three-berry cobbler, some cinnamon buns, or a simple chocolate pudding cake, youll be amazed at how easy it is to satisfy your sweet tooth with desserts cooked in your versatile slow cooker. Stocking Your Pantry Boxed pudding mix.

If there is one secret ingredient to making slow cooker desserts moist and delicious, it is pudding mix! Butter. Use unsalted butter. Cake mix. Good ones to have on hand are white, yellow, and chocolate. Use them dry, adding only the ingredients specified in the recipes unless otherwise directed (that is, do not follow the preparation instructions on the box). Canned fruit.

Peaches and pineapple are the most common ingredients youll need. But tropical fruit mixes with papaya or mango are great, too! Canned pie filling. Apple pie filling will be your go-to. Eggs. Use large eggs. Frozen fruit.

I recommend strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries. Mixed berry packages are also handy. Vegetable oil. Tips The recipes in this book were made in a six-quart slow cooker. Cook times here reflect what worked best for me with my slow cooker. Dump desserts are meant to be moist and gooeybut you can always cook your dessert longer. The most common complaint I hear about baking in a slow cooker is that the resulting dessert is too gooey. Dump desserts are meant to be moist and gooeybut you can always cook your dessert longer. The most common complaint I hear about baking in a slow cooker is that the resulting dessert is too gooey.

Slow cooker desserts are a bit moister than desserts baked in an oven, especially when the recipe calls for a fruit filling or pudding mixbut that doesnt mean the recipe has turned out wrong. If the dessert looks too moist, keep cooking on low and checking at half-hour intervals until it looks done or a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Use a slow cooker liner and nonstick cooking spray. For every recipe in this book, I recommend using a slow cooker liner and then spraying it with nonstick cooking spray. The liner makes cleanup easy and the spray keeps the desserts from sticking to the liner! If you dont want to spend the money on the liners, you can go ahead and spray the insert of the slow cooker directly. For the best-looking desserts though, you should try the liners at least onceyoull be glad when it comes to getting your Pineapple Upside-Down Cake out of the slow cooker intact! Use a paper towel to combat condensation. The inside of the slow cooker lid can sometimes collect condensation that then drips back onto whatever is baking in your slow cooker. To prevent this, try placing a paper towel across the opening of the cooker and securing it with the lid.

The paper towel will collect any extra moisture. A Note about Presentation Dump cakes arent exactly the prettiest desserts in the world of baking. But thats what ice cream, whipped cream, and other garnishes are for! If youre concerned about the way the dessert looks when youre serving it (or if you just really love ice cream, as I do), add a heaping scoop of vanilla ice cream to your dessert before serving. Or some chocolate fudge topping. Or some cream cheese frosting. Well, you get the idea! This isnt a cake in the traditional sense of a perfectly round dessert you can slice and serve.

Nope! This is a gooey, messy, chocolaty dessert you can scoop into a bowl with your favorite ice cream and devour with a big spoon! It aint prettybut, man, does this cake taste good! If youre feeling fancy, you can add some freshly sliced strawberries or cocoa powder as a garnish Yield: 8 servings Cook time: 4 hours Nonstick spray One 15.25-ounce box devils food cake mix 1 cup chocolate hazelnut spread 1 cup sour cream 1 cup milk 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter Line your slow cooker with a liner to make cleanup easier. Spray the liner (or just the insert, if youre not using one) with nonstick spray. Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl and add to the slow cooker. Cook on low for 4 hours, or until the sides of the cake are cooked and the middle is soft. Its supposed to be a bit gooey in the middlethats the molten lava! Chocolate peanut butter cups are one of my favorite desserts. So, I love making this cake that includes those delicious little treats with the bonus of even more chocolate and creamy peanut butter! For a delicious crunch, add cup chopped peanuts to your batter.

Yield: 8 servings Cook time: 2 hours Nonstick spray One 15.25-ounce box chocolate cake mix 1 cup hot water 3 large eggs cup vegetable oil cup creamy peanut butter 6 to 8 peanut butter cups, crumbled, plus more for garnish Ice cream, for serving Line your slow cooker with a liner to make cleanup easier. Spray the liner (or just the insert, if youre not using one) with nonstick spray. Mix all the remaining ingredients, except the peanut butter cups, together in a bowl. Pour half of the batter into the slow cooker and top with about half of the crumbled peanut butter cups. Cover with the remaining batter and sprinkle with the remaining candy. Cook on high for 2 hours, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Serve with ice cream and sprinkle with additional crumbled peanut butter cups. A combination of brownies and cookies... sounds good, right? All you need now is ice cream! Yield: 8 servings Cook time: 2 hours Nonstick spray One 18.3-ounce box fudge brownie mix One 17.5-ounce package chocolate chip cookie mix 1 cups milk 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted 4 large eggs 1 tablespoon vegetable oil Vanilla ice cream, for serving Line your slow cooker with a liner to make cleanup easier. Spray the liner (or just the insert, if youre not using one) with nonstick spray. Mix the remaining ingredients together in a bowl and blend well. Add to the slow cooker.

Cook on low for 2 hours. Serve with vanilla ice cream. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. Anonymous Simple and easy, these fudge brownies are guaranteed not to last long once youve had a taste! Yield: 8 servings Cook time: 2 hours Nonstick spray 12 tablespoons (1 sticks) unsalted butter, melted 1 cups granulated sugar teaspoon salt 3 large eggs 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 cup all-purpose flour Line your slow cooker with a liner to make cleanup easier. Spray the liner (or just the insert, if youre not using one) with nonstick spray. Mix the butter, sugar, salt, and eggs together in a large bowl.

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