Slow Cooker Apple Tree Pudding Cake

Soft cake, tender apples, together with a pudding-like apple tree sauce all baked upwardly amongst the convenience of your irksome cooker crockpot? Sure thing! ... When it's Slow Cooker Apple Pudding Cake!

It's apple tree time! And every bit much every bit I ready amongst apples, I realized inwards looking through my recipe index that I haven't shared all that many apple tree recipes amongst you. So today I've decided to stimulate got at to the lowest degree 1 modest footstep toward fixing that ... yesteryear sharing 1 apple tree recipe amongst you. And, oh, this Slow Cooker Apple Pudding Cake is a keen one!

Now when I'm peeling apples to ready amongst I similar to play a piddling game amongst myself. Oh come upwardly on, I know I can't endure the exclusively one! ...
Yes, I similar to run into if I tin post away pare the entire apple tree amongst keeping the pare inwards 1 large long strip.

I commonly can't.

But sometimes I create actually good! Like this 1 ...

I almost made it all the means to the terminate of the apple tree earlier the pare strip broke. Pretty good, huh? But getting that laaaaast piddling flake of the apple tree peeled amongst the pare strip nonetheless intact simply isn't easy.

I know, I know ... I'm simply a large tyke at heart. But acknowledge it ... you lot play amongst food, too, don't you?

Well making this Slow Cooker Apple Pudding Cake is means easier than peeling an apple tree inwards 1 large strip.

All you lot stimulate got to create is pose a few elementary ingredients inwards a irksome cooker ... layering them inwards without stirring ... together with permit them ready for close 2 1/2 hours. That's it. The cake batter business office cooks upwardly into a squeamish tender cake, together with the liquid business office cooks upwardly into a pudding-like sauce.

The origin layer to become into the irksome cooker crockpot is a elementary cake batter, which thence gets topped amongst chopped apples.

Next pour inwards a mixture of apple tree cider {or apple tree juice}, honey, melted butter, together with cinnamon ... don't stir!

Then plow the crockpot on together with permit it go.

The cake volition bake upwardly puffy, amongst tender apples on top, together with a slightly-thickened 'pudding' sauce on the bottom.

The 'pudding' sauce may endure a flake sparse when the cake is pipage hot, but it thickens upwardly a tad every bit it cools.

Spoon the yummy apple-y cake out, transcend it amongst a scoop of 'pudding' sauce, together with add together a dollop of whipped cream.

And thence dig in, every bit fast every bit you lot can. 'Cause you lot simply won't desire to wait.

See? Waaaaay easier than peeling an entire apple tree inwards 1 long strip.

Slow Cooker Apple Pudding Cake

Source: Adapted from Taste of Home Christmas, 2011
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients
For the cake batter:

2 c. all-purpose flour
2/3 c. granulated sugar
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 c. cold butter, cutting inwards modest cubes
1 c. milk
2 medium-sized Granny Smith apples {or other tart apples}, peeled together with chopped

For the pudding mixture:

1 1/2 c. apple cider or apple tree juice
1 T. fresh lemon juice
1/3 c. honey
1/4 c. granulated sugar
2 T. butter, melted
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
whipped cream {optional}

Directions

CAKE BATTER: In a mixing bowl, combine flour 2/3 loving cup sugar, baking powder, salt, together with 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon. Cut butter inwards amongst a pastry blender, ii knives, or your fingers until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir inwards milk until simply moistened. Spray a 4-quart or 5-quart irksome cooker amongst nonstick cooking spray. Spread batter into the bottom of the irksome cooker; sprinkle chopped apples evenly over batter.
PUDDING MIXTURE: In a modest bowl, combine apple tree cider, honey, melted butter, 1/4 loving cup sugar, together with 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Pour over apples together with cake batter. Do non stir.
Cover together with ready on high setting for 2 1/2 to iii hours, or until apples are tender.
Serve warm amongst a dollop of whipped cream.

Note I warm leftovers upwardly inwards the microwave ... it plant simply fine.

Enjoy!

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