Slow Cooker Gingerbread Pudding

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This slow cooker gingerbread pudding is a lovely warming dessert for colder days. The soft, spiced sponge is topped with a simple ginger syrup, adding a sweet, warming kick to every spoonful.

A white plate with a portion of gingerbread pudding with syrup.

Made in the slow cooker, it is a comforting pudding to serve after a family meal, especially when you fancy something sweet and warming without turning the oven on.

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Why You’ll Love this Recipe

A traditional steamed pudding spiced with ginger and other warming spices and drizzled with lashings of golden syrup, this makes a great winter dessert for a cold day.

The sponge pudding is soft and spiced, like gingerbread, and sweet from golden syrup.

A whole gingerbread pudding on a white plate with a small dish of syrup behind.

You could even serve this at Christmas if you wanted – use your slow cooker to steam the pudding and your kitchen won’t be filled with steam, plus you will have an extra ring free on the hob for your Christmas trimmings and sides.

Ingredients

Here’s what you will need for this recipe, get the quantities in the recipe card further down:

golden syrup – adds sweetness and soft texture to the gingerbread sponge.
eggs – I normally use large free-range eggs.
dark brown sugar – this treacly dark sugar adds colour and rich sweetness.
flour – I use self-raising in this recipe to give the sponge lightness.
butter – I used unsalted butter in all my baking. It can be replaced with plant-based butter if needed, to make this dairy-free.
ground ginger, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg – these warming spices add a little fiery kick and warmth to the soft dark sponge.

Method

Here’s how to make this gingerbread pudding in your slow cooker. Read this guide with photos and tips so you get it first right time. Quantities are in the recipe card at the end of the post.

Creamed butter and sugar with golden syrup, in a bowl with wooden spoon.

Step 1. Cream the butter (at room temperature) with the brown sugar, until fluffy. Stir in the golden syrup.

Sponge mixture in a bowl with wooden spoon, after adding flour and spices.

Step 2. Sift in the spices and flour and mix well.

Cake mixture in bowl with wooden spoon, after adding all three eggs and mixing well.

Step 3. Add the eggs one by one and stir in thoroughly.

Step 4. Put the mixture in a greased pudding bowl (I use a 1 litre pudding basin).

Pudding bowl covered with clingfilm in slow cooker pot.

Step 5. Cover the top of the bowl with cling film. Fill the slow cooker pot with an inch of boiling water, then place the pudding bowl in the pot.

Baked gingerbread sponge in pudding bowl in slow cooker pot.

Step 6. Replace the slow cooker lid and steam the pudding for 2.5 hours on high. Once ready you will see the pudding is cooked in the centre and firm to the touch.

Gingerbread sponge served onto a white plate.

Step 7. To serve, remove the clingfilm, take the bowl out of the slow cooker using oven gloves, then invert the pudding bowl onto a serving plate and tip the pudding out onto the plate.

Gingerbread pudding on a white plate, with spice jars behind, a portion removed showing the soft centre.

Step 8. Mix together the golden syrup and ground ginger and drizzle it over, then serve.

The ginger syrup is quick to make, using golden syrup and a little ground ginger. Warming the two together brings out the ginger flavour and creates a glossy sauce to spoon over the pudding just before serving. It has a sweet caramel flavour with a warming ginger kick.

Inside, the pudding is soft and the syrup soaks into the centre when you pour it on top of the warm cake. It doesn’t get dry when you steam a pudding like this, and the texture is just perfect.

Soft brown gingerbread spice pudding on a white plate, with syrup drizzled over the top.

Serving Suggestions

Serve warm with custard for a traditional comforting dessert.
Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream for contrast with the warm sponge.
Serve with single or double cream for extra luxuriousness.
Drizzle over extra ginger syrup just before serving and provide a small jug of syrup so everyone can add as much as they like to their serving.

More steamed puddings

For more steamed pudding ideas, check these out:

my slow cooker cranberry and vanilla steamed pudding
slow cooker syrup sponge
Snowdon pudding from Tin and Thyme
slow cooker orange and almond steamed pudding with toffee sauce from Supergolden Bakes

If you are a fan of slow cooker puddings and desserts, you are in the right place! Check out all my slow cooker desserts recipes for loads more ideas.

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