CHOCOLATE LAVA CAKE IN THE CROCK POT

I have recently been trying out new dessert recipes in my crock pot. I have seen several variations of this cake, some use cake mixes, some do it from scratch. Since I like quick and easy recipes I decided to give this one a try. So I have had all the ingredients to make this cake sitting on my counter for a month just dying to try it. Why haven’t I made it! Because it needs to be eaten while warm and my family of three could not eat a whole cake!  So I had to wait for a special like occasion like a co- workers birthday to take it to work. So I mixed it up real quick and started it cooking about 2:15 pm and it was bubbling by 5:00 pm. It was so hard not to raise the lid and smell it. I had to tape the lid shut and put warning signs on it to keep everyone from raising the lid so it would cook. Everyone seemed to enjoy the warm chocolate richness of the cake with the cold ice cream. I don’t think I would ever serve the cake without the ice cream. Next time I might try a white cake with vanilla pudding and white chocolate chips, and maybe mint chocolate chip ice cream or butterscotch, or rocky road, or pecan swirl,or whatever the Blue Bell special for the month is. I don’t think I could go wrong with any flavor of cake or ice cream. 

     

INGREDIENTS:

1 box of chocolate fudge cake mix

3 eggs

1 2/3 cupsof water

1/3 cup of oil

1  4 oz. package of instant chocolate pudding

2 cups of milk

1   12 oz bag of semi – sweet chocolate chips

1 crock pot liner bag

DIRECTIONS:

I used a crock pot liner instead of spraying the pot with PAM because it made for an easy clean up plus it kept the edges from burning. Mix the cake mix, oil, water and eggs together in a bowl. Pour it into the crock pot. Then using the same bowl mix the instant pudding with the milk and pour over the cake mix. Then sprinkle the chocolate chips all over the top of the pudding. Cover and cook on high for about 2 ½ hours or until the top looks like its erupting. Mine took 2 ¾ hours to start spitting chocolate out. Serve it hot with ice cream. Then just throw the liner away and lick the spoon clean. Because it will all be gone!

It is done when it starts bubbling!