Home cooks go wild as three-ingredient sponge cake you can make in the slow cooker becomes the latest viral lockdown trend
- Alan Hogg, from Leeds, shared pictures of his delicious bake, to Facebook
- He used condensed milk, self-raising flour and chocolate chips to make cake
- Added he put the slow cooker on high for 2.5 hours for a perfectly even bake
Savvy home bakers have been showing off their incredible lockdown creations made in a slow cooker with three simple ingredients.
While the first lockdown saw Instagram go crazy for banana bread, the second lockdown has seen home cooks take to Instagram to share their very simple recipes for whipping up a sponge cake in a slow cooker.
Taking to Facebook group Crockpot/Slow Cooker Recipes & Tips, one baker revealed their recipe using a can of condensed milk, a handful of chocolate chips and two and a half cups of self-raising flour.
Taking to Facebook group Crockpot/Slow Cooker Recipes & Tips, one baker revealed their recipe using a can of condensed milk, a handful of chocolate chips and two and a half cups of self-raising flour.
Alan Hogg, from Leeds, who also revealed pictures of his delicious bake, said he put his slow cooker on high for two and half hours to make the cake.
Alan Hogg, from Leeds, who also revealed pictures of his delicious bake, said he put his on high for two and half hours to make the cake.
‘Just pulled this out the slow cooker smells amazing,’ he wrote.
‘Looking forward to a slab with custard later on’.
He quickly racked up hundreds of comments and praise for the treat, with one saying it ‘looks delicious’.
He quickly racked up hundreds of comments and praise for the treat (pictured) with one saying it ‘looks delicious’
The cake is super simple to make with it taking mere minutes to create in the slow cooker
‘This looks yummy!’ one commented.
Another added: ‘Making this tomorrow!’
‘Really wanna try this one,’ said a third.
‘I’d eat a piece tight now, it looks delicious,’ wrote a fourth.
Others shared their own versions of the cake asking for tips and tricks on baking it – with some complaining of burned edges while others recommended putting a towel over the slow cooker to bake.
Others shared their own versions of the cake asking for tips and tricks on baking it – with some complaining of burned edges while others recommended putting a towel over the slow cooker to bake. With some taking to Instagram (left) to share their creations
One chef had their cake with a cup of tea (left) while another made a chocolate version and shared it to Instagram (right)
In May, food influencer Eloise Head, from London, shared recipes for three-ingredient slow-cooker fudge.
Posting her recipes on Instagram and TikTok under the name FitWaffle, in one recipe she mixes one tin of Condensed Milk (397g), 400g White Chocolate and 100g Lotus Biscoff Spread to create a mouthwatering Biscoff fudge recipe in minutes.
In another, she swaps the Biscoff for Oreos to make the fudge Oreo flavour, and in a third she makes chocolate fudge using KitKats.
The latest trend to takeover news feeds is a three ingredient fudge which can be whipped up in minutes. Pictured it Lotus fudge, made by food blogger Eloise Head