Slow Cooker Lemon Sponge Pudding Cake – UK Recipe

This slow cooker lemon sponge pudding cake UK recipe.
Is both zesty and comforting!
With its very lemony flavour yet comforting steamed sponge.
Perfect served warm with cold double cream or warm custard.

For more fruity cakes to make in your slow cooker. And also for more lemon-based slow cooker recipes. See my list of UK recipes included below.

Slow Cooker Lemon Sponge – UK Recipe

Ingredients (4 to 6 slices)

• Zest and juice of 2 lemons.
• 3 tbsp soft brown sugar.
• 100g margarine, plus extra for buttering the pudding bowl.
• 100g caster sugar.
• 2 large eggs at room temperature.
• 175 g plain flour.
• 1 tsp baking powder.
• Pinch of salt.
• 1 tsp vanilla extract, optional.

I made this slow cooker lemon steamed sponge pudding in a Morphy Richards Accents Sear and Stew 3.5 L Slow Cooker (See my review).

Method (Total Cooking Time: 3 hours)

1. Generously butter a 1.5 litre pudding basin.
2. Finely zest and juice the lemons.
3. In a small bowl add the soft brown sugar with half the lemon juice. Mix until the sugar is dissolved. Pour into the bottom of the pudding basin.
4. In a large bowl add the rest of the ingredients including the other half of the lemon juice. Mix until well blended.
5. Pour the cake batter into basin. Smooth the top so that it is level. Place a circle of buttered parchment paper on top of the sponge mix. Then loosely cover the bowl with a square of buttered foil.
6. Place the pudding basin into the slow cooker. Pour just boiled water, around the basin, so that it comes halfway up the sides.
7. Cover with the slow cooker lid. Cook on High for 3 hours. Until the sponge is well-risen and cooked through. Test this by using a skewer or toothpick, it should come out clean.
8. Remove the pudding basin from the slow cooker with oven gloves. Leave for 20 minutes before turning it out on to a plate.
9. Serve warm or at room temperature with warm custard or cold double cream.

Recipe Notes

1. This lemon steamed sponge pudding has a sticky lemony gooey-ness, around the sponge. Not really a sauce, as such.
2. You could also make this slow cooker recipe into a citrus pudding with an orange and a lemon, instead of the 2 lemons.

More Slow Cooker Cakes with Fruit

For more slow cooker fruit cakes recipes. You might like:
* Slow Cooker Banana Bread Recipe – UK equivalent of a Betty Crocker Recipe.
* Easy Slow Cooker Apple Sauce Loaf Cake Recipe.
* Slow Cooker Fruit Cake UK Recipe – My version of a Manor House Cake.

More Slow Cooker Recipes with Lemon

For more slow cooker recipes using lemons. You might like:
* Nigella’s Lemon Polenta Cake Made in a Slow Cooker.
* Moroccan Chicken Slow Cooker Recipe with Spices & Preserved Lemons.
* Slow Cooker Lemon Curd Recipe Review from Just 5 Ingredients Book.

See my latest Morphy Richards Slow Cooker Recipes. With more slow cooker recipe ideas. And US recipes I have adapted or tweaked to UK measurements.

You might also like: Top Slow Cooker UK Recipe Book – Just 5 Ingredients Review.