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The milk and Bailey's are poured over the fruit which is then left to soak for 24 hours. You can also double a long strip of baking paper and put in first so easier to pull out when cooked.
The original recipe used only three ingredients, the home cook added the Bailey's for more flavor. Due to the cooking method (slow cooker) the cake stays beautifully moist without having to be fed with any further alcohol on the lead up to Christmas.
If you have a large slow cooker, place an upturned saucer into the base of the bowl, this will create a trivet for your cake tin. The long cook time and high fruit content will scorch the bottom of the cake.
24hrs before baking, place the dried fruit, zest and juice of orange into a large bowl. The following day, grease and line the base and sides of a loose bottomed round 20 cm deep fill cake tin.
Pour warm water into the stoneware bowl to fill roughly ¼ full. Once the cooking time has elapsed, carefully remove the tin from the bowl and sit on a wire rack for cooling.
300g sultanas 150g dried chopped apricots 150g mixed peel 200g glacé cherry halves 200g dried cranberries 75g raisins 40g crystallized ginger Zest and juice of 1 large orange 300ml brandy 300g softened butter 300g dark brown soft sugar 5 medium eggs, beaten 2 tbsp black treacle 225g plain flour 2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground cinnamon For some ideas, have a look at my post all about baking and making cakes in the slow cooker here.
A round cake might well be a bit deeper though, so you can slice it in half and fill with jam and cream or icing. You can bake the cake directly in the pot with this size slow cooker.
But I find in this size the cake is more likely to burn before it has cooked through completely, it must be the ratio of contact with the sides of the slow cooker to the small amount of cake mixture you can get into the pot. Make the cake up following your recipe, then line your slow cooker pot.
I usually use a large cake case, the kind you can get from pound shops or supermarkets in the UK, as shown in the picture below. If you have a big slow cooker which can fit a tin, you could also put the cake mixture in a metal or silicone cake tin inside your slow cooker pot.
If you think the edges are burning and the center still doesn’t look firm, you could turn it into low for the second hour. Or, if you find you have a hotspot where the edge is burning, carefully rotate the pot within the slow cooker casing (for a round one) or lift it out and turn it, for an oval one.
Once the cake is done, turn the slow cooker off and let it cool for ten minutes or so, then carefully pull on the edge of the case or baking paper to remove the cake from the pot. Once cool you can split it in half, ice it and so on again as you would with a cake baked in the oven.
Alan Hog, 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.
Alan Hog, 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 Hog, 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.
2 eggs 240ml milk 120ml vegetable oil 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 240ml boiling water In a medium bowl, whisk the sugar, flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt.
In a separate small bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla until well combined. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix well.
Pour the cake mixture into the prepared slow cooker. Cook until cake has no wet spots on top and has pulled away from the sides of the bowl, about 3 hours.
Followed the recipe and instructions exactly although I reduced the sugar to 300g as 400g seemed like a huge amount. May reduce it even more next time especially if served with ice cream.
In fact, it was sew good we made it a 2nd time 3 days later when the first cake ran out. This took 3 hours like it says & turn off & leave for 30 more minutes -- I made it exactly according to the recipe -- we serve it on a plate with a side of ice cream (butter pecan is good or mint chocolate chip) & drizzle chocolate sauce (just a smudge) on top of ice cream & cake & top w/ whipped cream (can is good for this).
I've made this twice & plan to make it a 3rd time any day. Leftovers stay well for a few days w/plastic wrap atop & left in crackpot w/lid on if you like unplugged of course.
Oil) I have a large oval Rival pot. I am searching for great recipes for my crock pot cookbook as I've found a lot of crock pot recipes are awful.