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 snow day this winter
Servings 6
Calories 299kcal
Equipment
- large oval slow cooker
Ingredients
Chocolate dumplings:
- 75 g vegetable suet
- 115 g self-raising flour
- 35 g cocoa powder
- 50 g caster 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
Instructions
- 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.
Nutrition
Calories: 299kcal | Carbohydrates: 60g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 7g | Sodium: 16mg | Potassium: 203mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 40g | Calcium: 44mg | Iron: 1.7mg