Crockpot cooking with chocolate
By Barb42
@Barb42 (4214)
United States
August 26, 2008 12:00pm CST
I love chocolate and I love cooking in my crock pot. I have one recipe that I used to make with chocolate when we were building our house. It is a chocolate cake which is sort of like fudge and great eaten hot with vanilla ice cream. I cooked mine in a coffee can in the crockpot. You need 2 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of soda, 1 1/2 cups of sugar, 1/4 teaspoon of salt,6 tablespoons of cocoa, 1 cup of real mayonnaise (no dressings), 1 cup of hot water and 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavoring. Just mix this all of in your mixer for 2 minutes. Be sure to only fill your coffee can 2/3 full so it won't spill over into your crockpot. It takes about 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours for this cake to cook in the crockpot. I believe you will enjoy this cake as much as we did. I would often put it on early, run up and work on our house for a few hours, and then serve my family a good piece of fudge cake and ice cream! Delicious!
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@snowy22315 (169966)
• United States
26 Aug 08
This sounds pretty good. I mgith make this if i get an opportunity. I guess the issue is having a cofee can. I think I just threw one away. I guess I can dump coffee out of the one I ahve and put it in the cannister. I think I heard of a crockpot fudge cake that was similar to this one. It sounds good.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
27 Aug 08
Barb, do you put water in the crockpot? For my bread recipe you do , so I was wondering.
@Barb42 (4214)
• United States
26 Aug 08
I didn't have the setting to cook it on written down. But, as fast as it cooks, I'm sure that I cooked it on high. I'm thinking about cooking one of those soon and I guess I'll find out. Even if you put it on slow, it will only take lots longer to cook. Don't know if that would make a difference in how it turned out, though. Another thing I couldn't remember is whether I cut the other end of the can out before or AFTER the cake cooked. I am thinking I cut it out afterwards and that's how it comes out easily. I do know that's how I get things such as cranberry sauce out of a can - either cutting the bottom off or puncturing it. That releases the contents.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
27 Aug 08
Oh, that sounds so very good. I bet lite mayo does not work, either. I am going to try this, probably tomorrow. I love being able to make things without heating up the entire kitchen. I am voting for the idea that chocolate is GOOD for you. I think this will make my sweet tooth happy.
@ch88ss (2271)
• United States
27 Aug 08
Yummee. Sounds like it is delicious. It must be nice to be able to make something yourself.
I never had the time or patience for cooking, so I have not done much cooking in my life. Though I wish I could maybe when my kids are grown up and I can start baking for my grandkids.
Wish me luck
@Barb42 (4214)
• United States
26 Aug 08
Now that I can't really say. I do know they have a special pan to use in your crock pot but I don't have one. A friend of mine had told me about cooking the cake in a coffee can and I was reluctant to do it, but it worked. IF you have one of the newer crockpots which is oblong, I would think you might be able to use one of the small bread pans in there. I guess you could try it and see. If it didn't work, you aren't losing all that much.
