Modern kitchen equipment frees a woman from routine work, worries about burning a dish or poorly risen dough, significantly saves time and gives more freedom. It is all these functions that such a necessary thing in the kitchen as a slow cooker performs.
Slow Cooker Benefits
She knows how to cook, steam, bake and even fry. With it, you can cook almost all dishes, even holiday cakes. And best of all, this multicooker does all this without much control on the part of the hostess, who has time for doing her own business.
There are countless baking recipes suitable for the multicooker. With its help, you can bake muffins, a variety of cakes for cakes and even excellent biscuits. If earlier a big problem was to get a beautiful, magnificent biscuit in the oven, with the advent of appliances such as a crock-pot, everything changed. Without much effort, now any housewife, following the recipe, can bake an excellent fluffy biscuit.
Chocolate cakes - delicious and incredibly satisfying goodies that will be to everyone’s heart and soul. Everyone can make a chocolate cake to their taste using a slow cooker. The main thing is to show a little effort and patience.
Classic biscuit is the basis of many cakes. Almost all creams and fillings are combined with it. As a holiday cake in a slow cooker, you can consider the following recipes, which are prepared simply and always get.
Honey velvet
This cake was loved by many because of its airiness, unique taste and ease of preparation.
This is one of the best cake recipes in the multicooker.
For baking you need such components:
- flour - 550 g;
- eggs - 5 pieces;
- oil or spread - 120 g;
- coffee-10 g;
- honey - 30 g;
- soda - 1 tsp;
- sugar - 130 g.
Create a velvet cake in a slow cooker step by step.
To start, coffee should be poured with boiling water. In the absence of instant coffee, you can brew brew, only then strain to free from coffee grounds. While the coffee cools, the proteins separated from the yolks should be beaten with half the sugar. Continue whisking at maximum speed until a white shiny mass is obtained.
Separate the yolks until white with the remaining sugar. Pour warm coffee, melted butter, honey and soda into the mixture. Sift the sifted flour gradually into the mixture, continuing to beat with a mixer. Lastly, carefully add whipped proteins into the dough with a spoon.
Pour the dough into the multicooker bowl. On the panel, turn on the “Baking” button and set the time - 55 minutes or slightly less, depending on the power of the multicooker. You can do other things or cook one of the creams. After turning off the multicooker, do not immediately get the hot cake out of the bowl.
Since it turns out to be very magnificent and soft, it is easy to damage it. After the signal, let the biscuit stand to cool with the lid open. Gently take out the cooled cake by turning the bowl over onto a wide flat dish. The resulting cake is carefully cut into four parts, three of which are coated with cream. As a cream, whipped cream, custard or condensed milk with butter are used. The fourth crust is crushed in a blender with nuts until crushed. Cream-soaked cake is sprinkled with crumbs and grated chocolate, giving it a velvety feel. Amazing honey cake is ready to please guests.
Sponge cake with apples
According to this recipe, a cake in a multicooker cooks quickly and simply.
For baking, the following components are needed:
- apples - 3 pcs.;
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- sugar - 200 g;
- flour - 250 g;
- a little vanilla.
Beat eggs in a lush mass, adding sugar and vanilla. Beat a few more minutes. Then carefully add flour so that no lumps form. Put a layer of apples on the bottom of the multicooker, put the dough on top. Bake for 55 minutes. Gently turn the cooled biscuit onto a dish so that the apples remain on top. A photo of a cake in a multicooker prepared according to this recipe can be seen below.
Banana cake
This dessert will please with ease of preparation and excellent taste, in addition, it turns out to be of perfect consistency. A simple cake in a slow cooker is prepared using the following products:
- 2 eggs;
- 500 g flour;
- 140 g of oil;
- 3 bananas;
- 80 g of milk;
- a pinch of salt;
- 170 g of sugar;
- 5 g vanilla;
- 1 tsp soda.
Recipe for a slow cooker.
- Mix soda, salt and vanilla with flour.
- Peel and cut the bananas into small pieces.
- Combine sugar with butter, beat with a mixer, introduce bananas.
- Beat eggs, add to banana mass and milk.
- Add the flour mixture in portions, kneading the dough until smooth.
- Put in the bowl of the multicooker, previously coated with oil.
- Level the top with a spatula.
- In the “Baking” mode, set the baking time - 1 hour.
- Decorate the cooled cake with slices of bananas, optionally with icing, chocolate or nuts.
Sour cream cake
For such a cake, you first need to bake cakes.
Necessary components for it:
- 2 eggs;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 200 g sour cream;
- 1 cup flour;
- 1 tsp soda;
- nuts.
For cream you will need:
- 400 ml sour cream;
- 100 g of sugar;
- vanilla;
- chocolate bar.
First, beat the eggs with sugar until the mixture doubles in volume. Mix all other products, add nuts and knead the dough. If it turns out to be liquidy, you can add more flour. The resulting dough is divided into two portions and baked in turn in a slow cooker for 1 hour.
After the time has passed, with the help of a toothpick we check the readiness of the cake, if it is still damp, add time and add it, checking for readiness. After baking the second cake, we cut each of them horizontally into another 2 layers. Thus, the cake will be made of 4 cakes.
For cream, beat sour cream with sugar, adding vanilla. After applying the cream, sprinkle the top of the cake with grated chocolate and nuts, and you can lay it out with fruits or berries, put raspberries, strawberries or banana rings. Impregnation of the cake takes 2 hours, then you can treat them to guests.
Diet Cake
For those who want to lose weight, but don’t want to give up sweets, you can bake a cake in a slow cooker, which not only has a wonderful taste, but also has a calorie content of only 216 kcal per 100 g of product.
Products for the recipe:
- oat bran - 75 g;
- eggs - 6 pcs.;
- cottage cheese - 150 g;
- chocolate bar;
- Cocoa - 30 g;
- milk powder - 35 g;
- almond extract - 5 ml;
- cream cheese - 300 g;
- sugar - 60 g;
- soda - 1 tsp;
- prunes - 200 g;
How to bake such a diet cake?
- Chocolate should be crushed, pour 100 g of boiling water, melt and cool.
- Beat the eggs into chocolate and beat the mixture a little.
- Pour dry foods, almond extract, chopped prunes and knead the dough.
- Send the dough into the multicooker bowl for 50 minutes with the “Baking” mode.
- 10 minutes after baking, remove the finished cake from the bowl.
- Divide the cake into 3 layers.
- Cooked cream of whipped cottage cheese, cheese and icing sugar layered cakes.
- Leave to soak for a couple of hours.
Zebra" cake
This striped dessert has become one of the most popular not only because of its amazing taste, but also very appetizing appearance.
Essential products for making chocolate cake in a slow cooker:
- 600 g of flour;
- 4 eggs;
- 250 ml of milk;
- 1 tbsp. l cocoa;
- 200 g of oil;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 5 g vanilla;
- 1 tsp soda;
- lemon juice.
Add milk and butter to the beaten egg-sugar mixture and beat for a few more minutes. Separately combine flour, soda, slaked lemon and vanilla. Add a little flour mixture to liquid and beat until thick sour cream. Separate the dough into 2 identical parts. Add cocoa powder to one of the parts and mix well. Turn on the “Frying” or “Baking” program in the multicooker.
Pour 3 tbsp. l white dough in the center of the bowl. Then 3 tbsp. l Pour dough with cocoa into the center of the white dough. It will spill on its own and gradually fill the bottom of the multicooker with beautiful circles. Continue in turn to pour a light and dark layer until all the dough comes out. Bake a cake in a slow cooker for 50 minutes. After stopping the program, do not lift the lid for about half an hour, otherwise the pastries will settle. To check the readiness of the cake in the multicooker, stick a match in the center of the test. If it remains clean and dry, then the cake is considered ready.
Remove the baked goods from the bowl, turning it over onto a wide dish, and allow to cool. Sprinkle the cake on top with icing sugar, cut into pieces and serve with tea. It will have a chic look. Or cut the cake along and grease each with your favorite cream, turning it into a holiday cake.
Useful Tips
- Lubricate the bottom and walls of the bowl with oil, so that the finished baking easily lags behind the walls.
- Not all multicooker models have a baking temperature of 180 degrees. Be sure to determine at what temperature your multicooker bakes - at higher temperatures, cooking time is reduced.
- You can skip the step of soaking cakes with syrup, but then the cake will be dry - the icing or cream will not saturate it properly.
- Instead of cream, you can use boiled condensed milk.
Delicious cakes and wonderful pastries in a slow cooker are prepared with great speed and excellent quality. They never burn, they are well baked, easy to prepare and do not require significant effort. The main thing is to adhere to the recommendations that are attached to each model of the device.