Slow Cooker Lava Cake

Slow Cooker Lava Cake

1 (18.25 ounce) box chocolate cake mix
2 1/4 cups water, divided
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa powder

In large bowl, combine cake mix, 3/4 cup water, and 1/4 cup vegetable oil.  Mix well.  Spread in the bottom of a 4-quart slow cooker sprayed with cooking spray.

In medium bowl, combine sugar, cocoa powder, and 1 1/2 cups very hot water.  Mix well.  

Pour mixture into slow cooker.  Cover with lid.  Cook on high 2 to 2 1/2 hours.  I cooked mine for 2 hours.

Turn off slow cooker.  Let cool 15 to 30 minutes to thicken up the sauce.  

Serve warm with vanilla ice cream if desired.

This is a chocolate lovers dream dessert.  Rich warm moist chocolate cake rises to the top of the slow cooker as it cooks, with a layer of thick hot chocolate fudge sauce on the bottom.  It is an easy and delicious dessert.

I love to take a recipe with a lot of ingredients and figure out a way to make them with less ingredients, but still have the same flavor.  The original recipe that I had for a Lava Cake had 12 ingredients; my version of it has only five. 

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