I just got a Crockpot (also know as a slowcooker or slow cooker or slow-cooker) for the first time in years and what was the first thing I decided to make in it? A cake. Yup, cake.

I had seen this recipe on the Family Fun website and had wanted to try it for almost a year. I made it while Dave and I were watching the four hour Bogdanovitch film on Tom Petty. By the third hour, we had pot full of amazingly yummy, gooey chocolate Mudcake that makes it own suace as it cooks.

Here's the recipe:
Chocolate Crockpot Mud Cake

I did alter the recipe just a bit. I thought the recipe looked a bit small so I considered doubling it. In the end, I increased it by half. I also used Hershey's Milk Chocolate bars instead of semi-sweet choc chips cuz I like Milk Chocolate better.

The cake was so good it there ought to be a law against it.

Have any of you experimented with cakes in your crockpot? I found what seems like a good recipe for a banana Crockpot cake with a self-making sauce that comes from a pudding mix but most of the other Crockpot cakes seem to be what are called 'Dump Cakes" which is to say - open a can of some kind of fruit or pie filling, toss in crockpot, open a cake mix and dump on top. These dump cakes may or may not have a few sitcks of butter added. (blech).

I would like to find some nice sticky recipes such as the above cake. In the UK, they would probably call such things a form of pudding. I'd love a recipe similar in nature to the mud cake but for a lemon cake/pudding with lemon sauce. Another flavor I'd be interested in would be a good gingerbread type thing.

Any assistance out there?

If you have a crockpot and the ingredients for the Mudcake, do try it out. You won't be sorry unless you're watching your waistline!