Slow Cooker Self-saucing Chocolate Orange Pudding is a delicious chocolate sponge pudding with chocolate sauce you can serve straight from the slow cooker pot!
I love making slow cooker desserts and this self-saucing chocolate pudding is a great one for a special occasion or with your Sunday roast dinner!
I love the magic way the chocolate sauce forms under the sponge, and the bizarre way you make the chocolate cake mixture then pour liquid over it before baking!
I originally got this recipe from a slow cooker group on Facebook, however on looking into it, it seems to be simply an adaptation of this recipe from BBC Good Food here to the slow cooker.
It is a delicious indulgent slow cooker dessert, perfect for cold weather or anytime!
This slow cooker chocolate lava cake with its rich chocolate sauce is a real favourite here.
Crock pot desserts are ideal for a cold day, leave them cooking away while you get out in the snow and return to a brilliant treat!
Ingredients
Here’s what you will need to make the self-saucing chocolate pudding. Make sure you check the recipe card at the end of the post to get the quantities of each ingredients (scroll down).
- butter
- self-raising flour
- caster sugar
- cocoa powder
- baking powder
- zest and juice of 1 orange – or a clementine or satsuma will work too!
- eggs
- milk
- orange milk chocolate – or milk chocolate
- light muscovado sugar – or light brown sugar
Step by step
- Grease your slow cooker pot using a little melted butter or oil to stop the cake sticking to the sides.
- In a large bowl, measure out the flour, caster sugar, coca powder, baking powder, orange zest and a pinch of salt.
- In a jug, whisk together the orange juice, eggs, melted butter and milk.
- Pour the ingredients in the jug over the dry ingredients in the bowl.
- Mix until smooth.
- Add in the chocolate pieces then pour the cake mixture into the slow cooker pot.
- Mix 300 ml of boiling water with the light muscovado sugar and 25 g cocoa powder for the sauce, then pour this over the top of the cake mixture.
- Turn on the slow cooker, put on the lid (with tea towel under it to catch drips, stopping them falling onto the sponge as it cooks), then cook on high for 2-3 hours until firm.
Cooking time
The original recipe gave three hours as the cooking time for this slow cooker self-saucing Chocolate pudding, but in my slow cooker I find that it takes around two hours fifteen minutes to two and a half hours to be ready.
To check if it is cooked, stick a skewer or knife in the middle and check it comes out clean.
Your skewer might go into the chocolate sauce underneath the pudding but you want to check that the sponge layer is cooked, so try not to push it too far in to reach the sauce.
Cooking times depend on your slow cooker, some models and types of slow cooker cook much faster.
For example sear and stew type slow cookers with a metal bowl will bake a cake faster. Bear this in mind!
So make sure you look check yourself to see for when your chocolate pudding is cooked as the time could well vary in your slow cooker due to the above.
Recipe tips
This is what it looks like after pouring the cake batter into the slow cooker bowl, then pouring on the hot water, dissolved sugar and cocoa powder for the sauce.
At first it pools on the top, then it runs under the batter like this. It does look very odd at this stage!
After around two hours fifteen minutes, the wonderful sight of a chocolate sponge rising will greet you.
Once finished cooking, you’ll find a thick chocolate sauce under the sponge. Once you start to serve that chocolate orange sauce just oozes out.
This is lovely served warm with the chocolate sauce and some ice cream or cream.
More slow cooker desserts
- Slow Cooker Chocolate and Mint Aero Bubble Cake
- Slow Cooker Nutella Giant Scone
- Slow Cooker Cream Cheese Brownies
- Slow Cooker Apple Crumble
- Slow Cooker Rhubarb Cobbler
Recipe
Slow Cooker Self-Saucing Chocolate Orange Pudding
Ingredients
- 100 g butter melted
- 250 g self-raising flour
- 140 g caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 50 g cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- zest of 1 orange
- juice of 1 orange
- 3 eggs
- 150 ml milk I use semi-skimmed
- 100 g orange milk chocolate broken into chunks (I usuaully use Terry's Chocolate Orange segments or orange Matchmakers)
For the sauce:
- 200 g light muscovado sugar
- 25 g cocoa powder
Equipment
Instructions
- Grease your slow cooker pot using a little melted butter or oil.
- In a large bowl, measure out the flour (250 g), caster sugar (140 g), cocoa powder (50 g), baking powder (1 tsp), orange zest and a pinch of salt.250 g self-raising flour, 140 g caster sugar (superfine sugar), 50 g cocoa powder, 1 tsp baking powder, zest of 1 orange
- In a jug, whisk together the orange juice, eggs (3), melted butter (100 g) and milk (150 ml).100 g butter, juice of 1 orange, 3 eggs, 150 ml milk
- Pour the ingredients in the jug over the dry ingredients in the bowl and mix until smooth.
- Add in the chocolate pieces then pour the cake mixture into the slow cooker pot.100 g orange milk chocolate
- Mix 300 ml of boiling water with the light muscovado sugar (200 g) and 25 g cocoa powder for the sauce, then pour this over the top of the cake mixture.200 g light muscovado sugar, 25 g cocoa powder
- Turn on the slow cooker, put on the lid (with tea towel under it to catch drips, stopping them falling onto the sponge as it cooks), then cook on high for 2-3 hours until firm.
Updated 24 January 2021 to add step by step photos and new recipe images.
Loraine says
Can this be cooked on low
bakingqueen74 says
No it is best to bake on high in a slow cooker for the best results.
Leigh says
Made this today for after Sunday dinner. It was so easy to do and was absolutely delicious with ice cream. Would definitely make again and there’s some left for tomorrow . We have a 6.5litre slow cooker and it was just right. On high for just over 2 hours then I turned it off. Perfect
bakingqueen74 says
Great, thanks very much for leaving your review Leigh!
Gina Goddard says
Hi Lucy – I’ve had my slow cooker for 1 week and have used it 4 times; it’s still very much in control of me rather than the other way ’round but I’m determined to gain the upper hand by constantly playing with it! I was planning to make the original choc n orange pudding anyway, so seeing the slow cooker adaptation got me all excited (I don’t get out much). Daft question – do you slow cook the pudding with the slow cooker lid on or off?
bakingqueen74 says
Great news as slow cookers are awesome! Lid on for the pudding (you’ll find the lid is on for everything except fudge!). Good luck with the slow cooking Gina!
Gina says
Smashing, thank you. I’ll give it a thorough scrub after tonight’s chicken chilli!
Gina says
Wait – FUDGE?????!!!!!! In a slow cooker?!?!?!!!
bakingqueen74 says
Yes you just do the melting part with chocolate and condensed milk (it is chocolate fudge not traditional fudge)! I have several recipes on here if you look for fudge using the search tool on the side bar.
Marie says
where do I get the recipe from?
bakingqueen74 says
Hi, there is a link to the recipe where it says BBC Good Food website above.
Mary says
I made this yesterday – we had it with custard, delicious and lots left – need to get some exercise. I find your blog very inspiring. Thank you
bakingqueen74 says
That’s great Mary, thank you