Slow Cooker Lemon Self Saucing Pudding

This slow cooker lemon self saucing pudding is a simple and delicious dessert with a layer of lemon sponge pudding with a lemon berry sauce which forms beneath it, amazing as a warm dessert!

What is a self-saucing pudding

This type of dessert, known as a self saucing pudding and sometimes also as a magic pudding or pudding cake, is one where you make up a sponge mixture and pour over a mixture of boiling water and sugar, with flavourings of your choice. you then bake the sponge either in the oven or the slow cooker. 

As the sponge forms into cake, the sugar and boiling water form a syrup and this appears under the cake layer as a delicious sauce once you spoon out a serving. So delicious!

For this slow cooker lemon sponge pudding, you make the cake mixture up and then pour on a mixture of lemon-infused boiling water and sugar which makes the lemon sauce that forms underneath the pudding.

Eating the lemon sponge with that delicious hot berry sauce is such a treat! It is perfect as a winter and spring dessert when the weather is cold.

Which berries to use

I love a fruit pudding and decided to use a mix of blueberries, raspberries and blackberries in my self saucing pudding. It’s also great with strawberries in it.

You can use whichever berries you prefer! I tend to use fresh berries in this recipe rather than frozen.

Ingredients

Use this list to get together the ingredients you will need or as a handy shopping list. For the quantities see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

• butter
• self-raising flour
• caster sugar (some for the cake and some for the sauce)
• baking powder
• zest and juice of two lemons (keep the flesh for the sauce)
• blueberries
• raspberries
• blackberries
• medium free-range eggs
• milk

Step by step

1. Remove and grease your slow cooker pot.
2. In a bowl, mix the flour, caster sugar, baking powder, lemon zest and a pinch of salt.
3. Add the butter and mix.
4. Whisk together the eggs, milk, lemon juice in a jug, then pour this onto the dry ingredients and mix till smooth.
5. Stir in the berries, then pour the mixture into the slow cooker pot.
6. In a jug, mix together 250 ml boiling water with the flesh from the lemons and leave to infuse for five minutes.
7. Strain out the lemon, keeping the water, then mix in the 100 g of caster sugar and stir until dissolved.
8. Pour this mixture over the batter in the pot.
9. Cover and cook on high for approx 2 hours, or until the sponge is firm and no liquid areas remain. It took just over two and a half hours on high to cook in my slow cooker, which is quite slow.

Below is the finished product after serving. The sauce was purple from the fruit and the sponge was lovely and soft.

More slow cooker desserts

If you like this Slow Cooker Lemon Self Saucing Pudding, you might also like these other recipes:

• Slow Cooker Chocolate Pudding (chocolate lava cake)
• slow cooker lime and coconut pudding
• slow cooker brioche and strawberry bread and butter pudding
• Slow Cooker Panettone Bread and Butter Pudding

For more desserts made in your crockpot, do check out my post on Baking and making puddings in a slow cooker too. There are lots of recipes, ideas and tips there and loads more slow cooker dessert and main meal recipes in my Slow Cooker archives!

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Recipe

Slow Cooker Lemon Self Saucing Pudding

A lemon sponge pudding cake with a lemon berry sauce layer under it. Great as a winter dessert.

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Slow Cooker

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 2 hours hours

Total Time: 2 hours hours 15 minutes minutes

Servings: 6

Calories: 482kcal

Author: Lucy Allen | BakingQueen74

Ingredients

• 100 g butter melted
• 250 g self-raising flour
• 140 g caster sugar (superfine sugar)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• zest and juice of two lemons
• 250 g blueberries
• 125 g raspberries
• 150 g sweet blackberries
• 3 medium free-range eggs
• 150 ml milk

For the sauce:

• 250 ml boiling water
• 100 g caster sugar (superfine sugar)
• The flesh from the two lemons used for zest and juice

UK Measurements - US Measurements

Equipment

mixing bowl

jug

oval slow cooker

Instructions 

• Remove and grease your slow cooker pot.
• In a bowl, mix the flour, caster sugar, baking powder, lemon zest and a pinch of salt.
  250 g self-raising flour, 140 g caster sugar (superfine sugar), 1 tsp baking powder
• Add the butter and mix.
  100 g butter
• Whisk together the eggs, milk, lemon juice in a jug, then pour this onto the dry ingredients and mix till smooth.
  3 medium free-range eggs, 150 ml milk, zest and juice of two lemons
• Stir in the berries, then pour the mixture into the slow cooker pot.
  250 g blueberries, 125 g raspberries, 150 g sweet blackberries
• In a jug, mix together 250 ml boiling water with the flesh from the lemons and leave to infuse for five minutes.
  250 ml boiling water, The flesh from the two lemons used for zest and juice
• Strain out the lemon, keeping the water, then mix in the 100 g of caster sugar and stir until dissolved.
  100 g caster sugar (superfine sugar)
• Pour this mixture over the batter in the pot.
• Cover and cook on high for approx 2 hours, or until the sponge is firm and no liquid areas remain. It normally takes just over two and a half hours on high to cook in my slow cooker, which is quite slow.

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