How To Bake a Probiotic-Rich Slow Cooker Lava Cake

After all, we love utilizing this past handy piece of equipment for making a few of our all-time favourite sweater weather soup recipes, however that’s not all: Your multi-cooker can bake desserts, too. Like lava cake.

@lifewaykefir Delicate, gooey, and fudgy, our recipe for Sluggish-Cooker Chocolate Maple Lava Cake is the #vegan cake of our goals! Made with Lifeway Oat and actual cocoa powder, it is a candy deal with that’s straightforward to make and good on your intestine. #LoveYourGuts ♬ original sound – Lifeway Kefir

Prepared so as to add somewhat further sweetness to your life is that this slow cooker chocolate maple lava cake recipe that is sneakily filled with probiotics. Let’s dig proper in.

Why this sluggish cooker lava cake is nice for the soul and the intestine 

Gut health is one thing we discuss virtually day by day right here at W+G—which is why we really feel passionately about researching the best  ways to support your gut microbiome with out solely consuming, you realize, bran cereal and sauerkraut. Luckily, with the blessing of many registered dietitians we work with, we all know it is attainable to have your probiotic cake and eat it, too—with the assistance of the precise recipe. To that finish, this chocolate maple lava cake checks each field: It’s straightforward to make (hello, sluggish cooker), filled with gut-friendly probiotics (what’s up, cultured oat milk), and it’s vegan-friendly.

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Not like most conventional lava desserts, that are made with the same old baking trio—butter, eggs, and refined sugar—this model will get its ooey, gooey consistency from its star ingredient: Lifeway Cultured Organic Oat Milk.

This dairy-free, plant-based, gluten-free product is produced from natural oats and comprises 10 stay and lively vegan probiotic cultures per serving. Along with this, one cup of this cultured oat beverage additionally has 4 grams of protein and two grams of fiber. Briefly: It’s actually good for you, particularly your intestine.

Along with the classy oat milk, the opposite fundamental ingredient of this recipe is dark cocoa powder, a longevity-boosting rockstar (and who doesn’t love chocolate, anyway?). This beloved staple has been linked to combating irritation and boosting your temper, due to its excessive antioxidant content material. We love.

How you can bake a cake in a sluggish cooker

Fairly presumably our favourite half in regards to the recipe (apart from its scrumptious taste) is the sheer comfort issue of it. To make it, you simply dump every part in in a bowl and push Begin.

A phrase to the clever: To assist make this sluggish cooker cake a hit, you’ll need to grease the within of your clear sluggish cooker with the non-stick spray of your selection (or parchment paper), as you’ll with an everyday ol’ baking pan. Then, you possibly can sit again and calm down because the sluggish cooker works its magic for about three hours of hands-free cooking.

On that notice, if you happen to’re in the marketplace for a brand-spanking new sluggish cooker with somewhat extra curb enchantment on your kitchen counter, Crock-Pot is including two all-new sluggish cookers to their roster (they usually’re cute… no actually), launching on September 24. Say hiya to Crock-Pot Programmable Slow Cooker with Sous Vide Mode that incorporates a nifty temperature probe (excellent for baking!) and the Crock-Pot Design Series Manual Slow Cooker in Ponderosa Green (a limited-edition coloration that screams fall vibes). Glad sluggish cooker-baking season.

Sluggish cooker chocolate maple lava cake recipe

Yields 4 to six servings

Elements 

For the sluggish cooker chocolate maple cake:
1 cup whole-grain oat flour or gluten-free flour equal
1/2 cup unsweetened darkish cocoa powder (Dutch-processed cocoa; not common cocoa powder)
1 1/2 Tsp baking powder
1/4 Tsp sea salt
1 cup Lifeway Strawberry Oat Milk
3/4 cup pure maple syrup
1 Tsp pure vanilla extract
3 Tbsp vegan or dairy-free darkish chocolate chips

For the lava (pudding or frosting):
1/2 cup extra darkish cocoa powder (Dutch-processed; not common baking cocoa)
3/4 cup coconut sugar or date sugar (or unrefined gentle brown sugar)
1 cup boiling scorching water

1. Prep: Spray a 4-6 quart sluggish cooker with non-stick spray or line with parchment paper contained in the cooker. You may also use an Instantaneous Pot and set it to the “Sluggish-Cook dinner Mode” (don’t use the pressure-cooking mode). If utilizing an Instantaneous Pot, skip this prep step.

2. For the cake: Combine the oat flour, a half cup darkish cocoa powder, baking powder, salt, and sift collectively to combine till mixed. Pour in Lifeway Oat, pure maple syrup, vanilla extract, and stir properly to combine utterly right into a cake batter. Pour this into the ready sluggish cooker. Sprinkle in vegan or dairy-free chocolate chips on high.

3. Subsequent, combine up the lava (pudding or frosting) components: In a medium bowl, add a half cup extra darkish or Dutch-processed cocoa powder, three-quarters cup of coconut sugar, and sift to mix. Pour one cup of scorching water on high and blend utterly. (Make certain the water is boiling scorching as a result of that is what dissolves the sugar and cocoa powder right into a fudgy frosting.) Pour this on high of the ready cake batter within the sluggish cooker accomplished in the first step. The combination will look very watery, however don’t fear; it bakes up right into a wealthy, fudgy, cake-like pudding.

4. Flip the sluggish cooker to medium-high warmth and cook dinner (“bake”) for 3 hours or till agency. In case your sluggish cooker doesn’t have a medium setting, cook dinner on excessive for one hour, then 2.5 extra hours on low. Or simply cook dinner on low for 3-3.5 hours if you happen to choose. If utilizing an Instantaneous Pot, set it to the “slow-cook” mode and cook dinner for 3 hours (don’t use the pressure-cooking perform because the slow-cooking is what makes this cake mushy and fudgy).

5. As soon as the cake is cooked and the lava pudding on high appears dissolved, flip off the cooker, take away the cake and scoop some right into a bowl and serve with vegan coconut-based ice cream, vegan whipped coconut cream, or different desired dairy-free ice cream choices. (It’s additionally nice with recent strawberries or raspberries on high.)

For leftovers, (you probably have any!), let the cake cool utterly and retailer within the fridge for 3-4 days.

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