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.
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.
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
- Make the sauce first by mixing the hot water with the sugar and cocoa powder. Pour into the slow cooker bowl.
- 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.
- 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.
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Recipe
Slow cooker chocolate dumplings with chocolate sauce
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
Equipment
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.
karli says
could i make this in an oven for quickness?
bakingqueen74 says
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
Kate says
I’ve accidentally bought beef suet! Can I use?? Thanks , 🙂
bakingqueen74 says
I imagine you can but I am not sure if it would alter the taste? Sorry, haven’t tried that way.
Jenny Milligan says
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.
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Jenny, I’ve never used normal suet in a sweet dish so wasn’t sure.
Selina says
Didn’t work for me – the dumpling mixture is too runny to make balls
bakingqueen74 says
Oh what a shame, I’d add more flour then till it comes together. Not sure what went wrong there!
Aly says
Oh these are naughty! Thanks for linking up to Slow Cooker Sunday.
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Aly
Eileen Teo (@etspeaksfrom) says
Wow! It looks so rich and delicious! I didn’t know you could slow cook chocolate! Look fab! #tastytuesday
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Eileen – it was so yummy!
Sarah @tamingtwins says
These look so rich and gooey.. I’ve never thought of sweet dumplings. So many possibilities!
bakingqueen74 says
So many ways to be naughty!
Katherine Hackworthy says
This looks amazing and rich. I’ve never tried dessert in the slow cooker – must amend!
bakingqueen74 says
ooh you must!