You already know your slow cooker is good for stews, chilis and even chicken wings. But turns out, it’s also the ultimate appliance for cooking dessert. Here: 11 sweet recipes to get you started.
Guys, You Can Make Dessert in Your Crock-Pot
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Pumpkin Pie
A pie is a pie even if it’s served in a bowl. Just pour your ingredients into the slow cooker and top with butter and Bisquick. In six to seven hours, you’ll have what basically amounts to deconstructed pumpkin pie perfection.
Gooey Chocolate Cake
Basically all you do here is dump a bunch of ingredients into the slow cooker and let them sit for four hours. Idiot-proof!
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Apple Crisp
Put all those apples you picked to good use.
Berry Cobbler
Same idea. Just with berries.
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Arrange the ingredients for this autumn-inspired dessert in a glass, oven-safe loaf pan. Then place the whole thing in the Crock-Pot and pour water around the outside of the pan. Two to three hours later, you’ve got yourself a cheesecake.
Cinnamon Monkey Bread
Kneed ingredients into little dough balls, place them in your slow cooker and walk away for two hours.
Bread Pudding With Salted Caramel Sauce
Six ingredients. Start baking.
Carrot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting
Cake gets made in the Crock-Pot. Frosting goes on after. Easy peasy.
Slow Cooker Baked Apples
All you need to do is core and stuff the apples…your slow cooker will handle the rest.
Chocolate Bread Pudding With Cranberries
This one-pot bread pudding is the perfect mix of sweet and savory.
Blueberry Coconut Cobbler
Finally, a make-ahead recipe that’s also packed with oats, so you can call it breakfast, too.