Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake

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December 16, 2013 By Aunt Lou 11 Comments

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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 ‘Roundis 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.

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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 2-3quart crock pot, like my 2.5-quart crock pot.
This Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake from Gooseberry Patch’sSlow Cooking All Year ‘Round
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All slow cookers cook differently, so cooking times are always a basic guideline and shouldalways be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.

Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake Recipe

5 from 6 votes

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

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Notes

For this recipe I recommend using a 2-3quart crock pot, like my 2.5-quart crock pot.
This Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake from Gooseberry Patch’sSlow Cooking All Year ‘Round
Looking for more recipes? OurRecipe Findercan help you find exactly what you need.
Check out all our favorite recommendations for cookbooks, slow cookers and low carb essentials in ourAmazon 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 shouldalways be tested first in your own slow cooker and time adjusted as needed.

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We recommend serving this dessert with these other desserts:

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Comments

Bernadette Haylock says
May 2, 2020 at 3:23 pm

I found this cake to thick to mix! Sooo, I added 1/2 cup more of milk, and it mixed up beautifully!
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- Aunt Lou says
  May 8, 2020 at 3:44 pm
  
  Great job making adjustments as you needed, Bernadette! I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
  ~Aunt Lou
Shunti says
May 13, 2019 at 12:54 pm

Hey Aunt Lou,
Can the lava cake recipe be doubled? I have a six quart crock pot.
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- Aunt Lou says
  May 14, 2019 at 11:21 am
  
  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
- shunti says
  May 14, 2019 at 11:44 am
  
  Thanks will do
- Laura says
  April 20, 2020 at 11:27 am
  
  Hi, Shunti
  Would be interested to know if you tried this and did it work out?
Kristen Howe says
April 1, 2017 at 7:21 pm

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?
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- Aunt Lou says
  April 4, 2017 at 5:53 pm
  
  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
Cris says
February 23, 2017 at 3:40 pm

One of my favorites! Thanks for sharing Aunt Lou!!
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