20 delicious desserts you can make in a slow-cooker

Ditch the dish and make your next apple crisp—complete with a crumbly topping cooked to perfection—right in your slow cooker. Pillsbury can show you the way with just eight ingredients (nine with the ice cream!) and less than three hours of cooking time.

Raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, and blackberries all go into this tasty berry cobbler recipe from...Tasty! Aside from the fruit, you’ll just need butter, cornstarch, yellow cake mix, and your trusty slow cooker.

Bread pudding sounds incredibly boring, but it’s actually a delicious dessert that can be customized with caramel or chocolate or any other sweet additions—and made in your slow cooker, of course. This version from Simply Recipes calls for both caramel and bananas!

Candied pecans are an irresistible and addicting snack for all occasions from Christmastime to summer camping. They’re going to be irresistible to make once you see how easy they are in the slow cooker, thanks to this recipe from Dinner, Then Dessert.

Might want to tuck this one away until fall—or don’t. (We won’t judge.) As long as you can obtain some tasty apples, then it’s always a good time for these caramel treats...especially when you’re making them in your slow cooker. It’s a cinch, and Just a Pinch can show you how.

You can absolutely make regular blondies in the slow cooker, too, but why would you do that when you can have caramel blondies instead? We recommend this recipe from Punchfork, mostly because the name includes the word “gooey.”

Water baths can be a hassle. Forget that and forgo a pan altogether by bringing your slow cooker into the equation. This version from A Spicy Perspective takes 5-7 hours while cooking low and slow.

Chocolate chip cookies are a bit tricky in the slow cooker, but chocolate chip cookie bars? That’s easy as pie. (And easier than actually making pie!) You’ll need all the usual suspects in terms of ingredients, and then three-and-a-half hours on high. Get the details from Magic Skillet.

Do you even need an explanation here? It’s a big ol’ pot of chocolate into which you can dip anything and everything that you want to make more delicious. Rachel Cooks has the recipe, which, again, is basically just a whole lot of chocolate.

The love affair between chocolate, peanut butter, and us is still going strong after many years—and our relationship only heated up more when we found out that chocolate peanut butter cake can be made in a slow cooker. Betty Crocker has a simple-yet-scrumptious version that surprisingly uses yellow cake mix as the base.

Not only can you make crème brûlée in the slow cooker, but you can make crème brûlée in adorable mini ramekins in the slow cooker! You’ll still need a torch for the tops, but this version from Scotch & Scones only requires five ingredients and includes the word “foolproof” in the title, so it’s perfect for dessert-loving fools like us.

Once you make dulce de leche, your life splits into two time periods: your life before you made the dulce de leche, and your vastly improved life now. It’s that good. You can add your new creation to cookie or brownie recipes, put it on ice cream or in a shake, or dip fruit (or your finger) in it! Foodie with Family has a unique slow cooker version where you make it in mason jars.

What the fudge? How did we go so long without knowing our slow cooker could make fudge? Now that we do, we also know there’s no better way to make this chocolaty treat. Not only is it easy, but it only requires about 90 minutes in the slow cooker before going into the fridge or freezer. Hungry Healthy Happy has the rest of the info.

That’s right: Hot. Fudge. Brownies. In your slow cooker! These are a cinch to make, especially if you use a brownie mix as your base. According to this version from Recipes That Crock, you only need two more ingredients…not including the optional (but highly encouraged) toppings of ice cream, whipped cream, sprinkles, caramel, and cherries.

When life gives you lemons, make lemon bars...in your slow cooker! Bake at Midnight has a recipe that takes just 15 minutes to prep, and it even includes a crust

Monkey bread (also known as pull-apart bread or bubble loaf) can be customized any way you want, but our favorite is this version from Crazy for Crust. Not only is it basically one big cinnamon bun, but it’s also easy to prepare using canned cinnamon rolls. Plus, you could even sneak it in as part of a totally unbalanced breakfast.

Peach cobbler is one of the easiest slow cooker dessert recipes around. For this version from Recipes That Crock, you’ll need to buy 30 ounces of peaches in syrup, but you probably have every other ingredient: butter, milk, sugar, flour, baking powder, and cinnamon.

That’s right, you can even make candy in your slow cooker! These chocolate-covered peanut clusters are a great dessert or snack, and they even make great gifts. Simply Happy Foodie has a simple recipe that employs three types of chocolate.

Trust us: Pineapple upside-down cake is a lot easier than it both sounds and looks. In fact, aside from the time in the slow cooker, it only requires about 15 minutes of prep. Betty Crocker knows a shortcut.

You can whip up a batch of homemade rice pudding with just rice, milk, evaporated milk, sugar, butter, vanilla, salt, and cinnamon. As Lil’ Luna says in this recipe, all you need to do is whisk together the ingredients and turn on the heat.