Baking in the Crock Pot
There has been many a time when I wanted to bake a cake but I already had the main meal cooking in the oven. The solution was to use the crock pot and cook the cake in that so that's what I did. It is really a mini oven and bakes most cakes very well. Fruit cakes and self topped/iced cakes cook very well in the crock pot. I am amazed at how well the cakes rise in the crock pot.
You can use a crock pot cake tin or an ordinary cake pan or even the crock pot base itself to cook the cake. I know people who use empty coffee or soup cans. These are good for fruit cakes and rolls. I haven't had a bad experience yet so I am either lucky or the crock pot likes baking.
Here are 10 tips for crock pot baking:
- Preheat the crock pot on high for 10 -1 5 minutes if you are using an ordinary pan.
- Use several sheets of paper towel on the top of the cake pan and cover with the crock pot lid, except when using the crock pot cake pan.
- Cook your cakes on the high setting.
- Don't lift the lid during cooking, only at the end as you let the heat out.
- Use a rack if you have one in the bottom of the crock pot base and if you haven't one you can use 2 or 3 egg rings as a substitute. This helps the heat to circulate around the pan for more even cooking.
- Grease and line the cake pan to prevent the cake from sticking.
- Only half fill the cake pan or cut the liner at least an inch above the top of the sides.
- Use your oval based crock pot for cakes that can be decorated as faces, clocks, footballs etc.
- Test the cake with a skewer and if cooked let it cook a few minutes before getting turning out.
- Use prepared cake mixes in the crock pot for an improved taste over conventional cooking.
Enjoy baking in your crock pot especially during the holidays coming up. This will also save your oven space for other cooking.
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I am not sure I understood what you said. I am new to crock pot cooking and I didn’t understand what you meant about using these different pans. Are you saying that you don’t use the crock? I have an oval slow cooker so I don’t know what kind of pan would work in there or how another pan would work on the base. Some pictures would have helped. I have a newer Cuisinart oval slow cooker.
You can use whatever cake pan will fit in your oval base or just put the cake directly into the base if you dont mind having an oval cake. If you had a rectangle crock pot then a square cake pan may fit that. So you see you use what you can to fit what you have. I hope that explains it a bit better.
Hi Pauline. Most interesting. How long would you cook for? A chocolate cake or a fruit cake?
Fruit cakes take about 3 hours and ordinary cakes about 2. That is a guide only though Jan. You found a crock pot cake pan yet?
No. They only exist in the U.S. and the postage is just not worth it. Like over $30 postage for a $10 pan! Thanks for asking.
Thanks, Paulineh. I have an oval insert so no, another type of pan wouldn’t fit in there at all. Mine is a 3.5 quart.
So Mom I would cook straight in the crock base or a shallow smaller oval dish may fit in there too.
Each cake is different depending on the quantity and ingredients used eg fruit cakes would take a bit longer than a standard cake would.
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