Slow-Cooker Desserts - Cooking Light

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Tropical Bananas Foster

Freshly-sliced bananas and pineapple meet soft vanilla ice cream and a savory cinnamon-flavored sauce in one decadent dessert. Fresh fruit is always best, but for the sake of convenience, precut pineapple is also worth reaching for.

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Double Apple Cake

If you’re an apple lover, look no further than this tasty cake recipe that boasts a double helping of applesauce and dried apples in its batter. With only 1 to 1-1/2 hours in the slow cooker, this apple cake is the perfect ending to a fall feast.

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Tiramisu Bread Pudding

Drizzled with a rich mascarpone sauce, this moist, coffee- and Kahlúa-infused bread pudding offers the flavors of a favorite Italian dessert.

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Brownie Pudding Cake

Rich and decadent from both Dutch process cocoa and bittersweet chocolate, this dessert is part cake and part pudding. Top with light vanilla ice cream, if desired.

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Spiced Poached Pears

This elegant but yummy sweet treat is a slow cooker sensation that is sure to be one of your all-time favorite desserts. Top with crème fraîche and cinnamon, if desired.

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Amaretti Cheesecake

Cheesecake in a slow cooker is a brilliant idea for a heavenly special-occasion dessert that will keep your oven free. Top with fresh raspberries to complete your sweet treat.

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Brandied Plum-Vanilla Bread Pudding

Brandy-spiked dried plums bejewel this delicious vanilla-infused bread pudding, putting a decadent spin on comfort.

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Vanilla Bean Baked Custard

This creamy custard is about as simply delicious as it gets. Using evaporated milk helps the custard stabilize and not curdle.

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Angel Food Cake with Mixed Berry Compote

Slow-cooked sauce made from three types of berries dresses up store-bought pound cake.

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Pineapple-Coconut Tapioca

Small pearl tapioca combined with coconut milk and fresh pineapple makes a simple tropics-inspired treat. The key to success is using small pearl tapioca, not instant or minute tapioca. Fresh mango or papaya works equally well as a substitute for the fresh pineapple.

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Rum Raisin-Arborio Pudding

Soaking the raisins in rum allows them to absorb the flavor and plump up before you stir them into the pudding.

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Walnut-Stuffed Apples

Nothing says "autumn" like the fragrance and flavor of cooked apples, especially when they're filled with a mixture of sweetened currants and walnuts and spiced with cinnamon. Serve these apples warm from the crockpot with low-fat frozen yogurt.

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