If you want an easy, comforting slow cooker dessert, here’s one of the best (and most loved) options:
🍫 Slow Cooker Chocolate Lava Cake
🧾 Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ cup milk
- 2 tbsp oil or melted butter
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder (for topping)
- 1½ cups hot water
👩🍳 Instructions
- Mix the batter
Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, and baking powder. Add milk, oil, and vanilla. Mix until smooth. - Pour into slow cooker
Grease the cooker and spread the batter evenly. - Add topping
Sprinkle brown sugar + cocoa powder over the batter (don’t mix). - Pour hot water on top
Yes—right over everything! (This creates the gooey sauce underneath.) - Cook
- LOW: 2–2.5 hours
- HIGH: 1.5–2 hours
🍨 Serve
Scoop it warm—there will be soft cake on top and rich chocolate sauce underneath 😍
Best with:
- Vanilla ice cream
- Whipped cream
🍏 Other Easy Slow Cooker Dessert Ideas
- Apple cinnamon crumble
- Rice pudding
- Bread pudding
- Peach cobbler
✅ Why slow cooker desserts are great
- No oven needed
- Very forgiving (hard to overbake)
- Perfect for cozy, soft, “comfort food” textures
If you want, I can give you a 3-ingredient slow cooker dessert or something super quick using what you already have at home 👍
