Do you have an old crockpot stuck inside your cabinet and gathering a lot of dust? It is now time to dust if off and be ready to have a slow cooking again. Perhaps you have used your slow cooker once or twice to make classic slow cooker recipes like soup or casserole, but did you know that you can make desserts in the crockpot too?
With the use of this, you will be able to make any kind of desserts such as rice pudding, bread pudding, cobbler recipes, as well as dump cakes. .
Other Desserts You Can Make from Crockpots
You have a choice to make a dessert in a crockpot and then a sauce on the stove to mix with it. Instead of spending your time waiting for the slow cooker to cook your dessert, you may spend it on making a yummy homemade sauce or you could drive to a nearby store and grab some ice cream or whipped cream.
You may also try a crockpot fruit crisp recipe. This is just so easy. You just need to chop some fruit and add it to the crockpot. Then drop some oats, sugar, flour, melted butter, as well as spices and subsequently cook and wait until the fruit turns hot and bubbly. This can be delicious with ice cream.
You can do these kinds of desserts especially when you have a hectic day coming up since you do not need to spend too much time on these recipes. You only have to prepare them in the morning then it will take care of itself for the rest of the time hence, you have more time to spend on other stuff.
Ingredients and Steps for Sweet Potato Cobbler
The mixture of sweet potatoes, nuts, orange, sugar, eggs, flour and so on will surely give you the most delicious dessert. Serve it as it is or perhaps you can add a scoop of vanilla ice cream, orange sorbet, or whipped cream.
The ingredients needed:
18 oz canned sweet potatoes
1 tablespoon orange juice
one half cup chopped pecans
one fourth cup + 2 tablespoons - melted butter
two tbsps - flour
two beaten eggs
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
2 tablespoons white sugar
1/2 cup evaporated milk
The procedure:
Drain and mash the canned sweet potatoes with the white sugar, 2 tablespoons of the brown sugar and 1/4 cup of the butter. Beat in the evaporated milk, eggs and orange juice. Next, slightly butter the crockpot, and subsequently incorporate the mixture of sweet potato to it.
The flour, pecans, along with the remaining brown sugar and butter will then be mixed together. And then, this mixture will be spread on top of the mixture of sweet potato. Cover the crockpot and wait for around 3 and 1/2 hours to cook it. It is best to serve it hot.
Thus, we can say that crockpots are actually not only for cooking soups and casseroles. It can be used for desserts to suit everyone's taste.