Slow Cooker Chocolate Lava Pudding

Submitted by Mumofstig

A self saucing chocolate pudding. Easy, delicious and terribly indulgent!

Pudding ingredients

• 1 cup of plain flour
• 3 tablespns cocoa powder
• 6 tablespns butter
• 1/4 cup choc chips – melted together with the butter in microwave for 1 min, stirred.
• 1/4 teaspn salt
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 egg yolk
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 2 teaspns vanilla extract

Topping ingredients

• 6 tablespns cocoa powder
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup brown or muscavado sugar
• 1 1/2 cups hot (but not boiling) water

Method

1. Whisk dry pudding ingredients together, make a well in the centre.
2. Add milk, egg, melted butter/chocolate mix and vanilla extract, mix thoroughly.
3. Spoon batter mix into the bottom of slow cooker.
4. For topping, whisk cocoa and the 2 different sugars together and then sprinkle the mix over the batter.
5. Gently pour the hot water over the back of a spoon and onto the top. DO NOT STIR.
6. Cook on high for 2 hrs.

There will be a saucy/sticky layer at the bottom when you spoon it out – just lush with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.