Slow Cooker Jam Swirl Cake
A simple and delicious cake with a swirl of jam through it, made in your slow cooker
Servings 8
Calories 314kcal
Equipment
- large oval slow cooker
Ingredients
- 300 g self raising flour
- Pinch of salt
- 250 ml milk
- 60 ml veg oil I used sunflower
- 1 egg
- 100 g caster sugar
- Strawberry jam or use different flavours of jam
- 100 g chopped glace cherries optional
Instructions
- Put the flour and salt in a large bowl.
- Mix the milk, egg, oil and sugar together in another bowl.
- Pour the milk mixture into the dry ingredients and mix gently.
- Put half the mixture in your prepared (greased, lined) slow cooker bowl.
- Drop on some spoonfuls of jam.
- Top with the rest of the cake batter, then add more spoonfuls of jam on top.
- Swirl the jam around with a knife to achieve a pretty effect.
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Notes
Optional: add cherries too. All kinds of jam work well - strawberry, raspberry, plum, blueberry, whatever you like!
Cooking time:
In my slow cooker this took. 2-3 hrs approx on high, but mine cooks slowly. Yours may take less, check from about 1.5 hrs and remove the pot when a skewer comes out clean. Turn out onto a rack to cool.
In my slow cooker this took. 2-3 hrs approx on high, but mine cooks slowly. Yours may take less, check from about 1.5 hrs and remove the pot when a skewer comes out clean. Turn out onto a rack to cool.
Nutrition
Calories: 314kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 22mg | Potassium: 86mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 80IU | Calcium: 44mg | Iron: 0.4mg