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    Home » Recipes » Slow Cooker Desserts

    Published on Feb 2, 2015. Modified on Oct 21, 2022 by bakingqueen74. This post may contain affiliate links. 16 Comments

    Slow Cooker Chocolate Dumplings

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    Slow Cooker Chocolate Dumplings are very naughty but could be ideal for a sweet chocolate treat when you are feeling indulgent!

    With the rich and indulgent chocolate sauce enrobing the soft chocolate dumplings, they would make the ideal dessert to enjoy on a cold winter’s day.

    Slow Cooker Chocolate Dumplings

    Chocolate dumplings, cooked in a rich and delicious chocolate sauce in the slow cooker! Rich, fudgy and chocolatey!

    It is certainly not for you if you are on a health kick, but is ideal to be enjoyed as an occasional treat.

    We demolished these after a Sunday roast, the family all seemed to enjoy this! I’ll make them again when I have a chocolate craving I think.

    Slow Cooker Chocolate Dumplings

    Ingredients

    Here is what you will need for this recipe, get the quantities in the recipe card below.

    For the chocolate dumplings:

    • vegetable suet
    • self-raising flour
    • cocoa powder
    • caster sugar
    • water

    Chocolate sauce:

    • light brown sugar
    • dark muscovado sugar
    • cocoa powder
    • freshly boiled water

    Step by step

    1. Make the sauce first by mixing the hot water with the sugar and cocoa powder. Pour into the slow cooker bowl.
    2. Turn the slow cooker on high, replace the lid, and cook the sauce for 1 to 1.5 hours until hot and starting to thicken.
    3. To make the dumplings, place all the dry ingredients in a bowl, then add the water and mix with a spoon.
    4. Wet your hands and then form small balls from the dumpling mixture and drop them into the sauce. The mixture makes 12-14 small dumplings (remember they will grow as they cook).
    5. Replace the lid and cook the dumplings in on high for 1 to 1.5 hours until a skewer comes out clean.
    6. Serve the dumplings and drizzle over the chocolate sauce.

    Pin these slow cooker chocolate dumplings for later!

    Slow Cooker Chocolate Dumplings with Chocolate Sauce - the best comfort food recipe ever, ideal for a snowy winter's day

    Recipe

    Chocolate dumplings in chocolate sauce.

    Slow cooker chocolate dumplings with chocolate sauce

    A comfort food recipe to beat all others, chocolate dumplings cooked in their own chocolate sauce in your slow cooker, just what you need on a cold day this winter
    5 from 2 votes
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    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: Slow Cooker
    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 3 hours hours
    Total Time: 3 hours hours 10 minutes minutes
    Servings: 6
    Calories: 299kcal
    Author: Lucy Allen | BakingQueen74

    Ingredients

    Chocolate dumplings:

    • 75 g vegetable suet
    • 115 g self-raising flour
    • 35 g cocoa powder
    • 50 g caster sugar (superfine sugar)
    • 150 ml water

    Chocolate sauce:

    • 400 ml boiling hot water from the kettle
    • 130 g light brown sugar
    • 70 g dark muscovado sugar
    • 20 g cocoa powder
    UK Measurements - US Measurements

    Equipment

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    Instructions 

    • Make the sauce first by mixing the hot water with the sugar and cocoa powder. Pour into the slow cooker bowl.
      400 ml boiling hot water from the kettle, 130 g light brown sugar, 70 g dark muscovado sugar, 20 g cocoa powder
    • Turn the slow cooker on high, replace the lid, and cook the sauce for 1 to 1.5 hours until hot and starting to thicken.
    • To make the dumplings, place all the dry ingredients in a bowl, then add the water and mix with a spoon.
      75 g vegetable suet, 115 g self-raising flour, 35 g cocoa powder, 50 g caster sugar (superfine sugar), 150 ml water
    • Wet your hands and then form small balls from the dumpling mixture and drop them into the sauce. The mixture makes 12-14 small dumplings (remember they will grow as they cook).
    • Replace the lid and cook the dumplings in on high for 1 to 1.5 hours until a skewer comes out clean.
    • Serve the dumplings and drizzle over the chocolate sauce.
    Did you try and love this recipe?Then please leave a star rating and comment below to let me know how you got on!

     

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    Comments

    1. karli says

      January 29, 2018 at 8:16 pm

      could i make this in an oven for quickness?

      Reply
      • bakingqueen74 says

        January 29, 2018 at 8:21 pm

        I am sure you could too but I couldn’t suggest timings I’m afraid as have only made this dish in a slow cooker

        Reply
    2. Kate says

      January 21, 2016 at 10:19 pm

      I’ve accidentally bought beef suet! Can I use?? Thanks , 🙂

      Reply
      • bakingqueen74 says

        January 22, 2016 at 6:36 am

        I imagine you can but I am not sure if it would alter the taste? Sorry, haven’t tried that way.

        Reply
      • Jenny Milligan says

        February 27, 2016 at 3:03 pm

        Vegetable suet is fairly new on the market. Proper suet is beef suet made from the hard fat of cows. I’ve used ordinary suet for all sorts of things, sweet & savoury all my cooking life. I’ve never brought vegetable suet which is a vegetarian version of beef suet and made from palm oil combined with rice flour. Treacle pudding, Sussex pond pudding, bread pudding, jam pudding etc are all made from beef suet and have been since the recipes were invented. Anything that has suet in the recipe is for beef suet, unless you are a vegetarian, then vegetable suet would be substituted. Go ahead and use your beef suet.

        Reply
        • bakingqueen74 says

          February 27, 2016 at 3:13 pm

          Thanks Jenny, I’ve never used normal suet in a sweet dish so wasn’t sure.

          Reply
    3. Selina says

      April 03, 2015 at 5:24 pm

      Didn’t work for me – the dumpling mixture is too runny to make balls

      Reply
      • bakingqueen74 says

        April 03, 2015 at 5:27 pm

        Oh what a shame, I’d add more flour then till it comes together. Not sure what went wrong there!

        Reply
    4. Aly says

      February 15, 2015 at 9:27 am

      Oh these are naughty! Thanks for linking up to Slow Cooker Sunday.

      Reply
      • bakingqueen74 says

        February 18, 2015 at 7:25 pm

        Thanks Aly

        Reply
    5. Eileen Teo (@etspeaksfrom) says

      February 04, 2015 at 6:34 pm

      Wow! It looks so rich and delicious! I didn’t know you could slow cook chocolate! Look fab! #tastytuesday

      Reply
      • bakingqueen74 says

        February 07, 2015 at 6:36 pm

        Thanks Eileen – it was so yummy!

        Reply
    6. Sarah @tamingtwins says

      February 03, 2015 at 3:52 pm

      These look so rich and gooey.. I’ve never thought of sweet dumplings. So many possibilities!

      Reply
      • bakingqueen74 says

        February 07, 2015 at 6:37 pm

        So many ways to be naughty!

        Reply
    7. Katherine Hackworthy says

      February 03, 2015 at 1:05 pm

      This looks amazing and rich. I’ve never tried dessert in the slow cooker – must amend!

      Reply
      • bakingqueen74 says

        February 07, 2015 at 6:40 pm

        ooh you must!

        Reply
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