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Sweet and Slow
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Published 2008
Sweets are foods set apart. Unfettered by the constraints of nutritional sensibility or the need to fit into a meal, sweets invite you to let your desires run free. Slow cooking and indulgence don’t frequently go together, but that doesn’t mean they can’t join forces. The moist, gentle environment inside the inner reaches of a slow cooker is just the place to steam a pudding, relax a peck of apples into apple-sauce, or brown a betty.
You can even bake cakes in a slow cooker, provided they are moist and rich recipes, by using a baking pan that fits inside the crock insert. I have found that a 6-cup soufflé dish with a diameter of less than 7 inches fits in most slow cookers 6 quarts or larger. You could also use a 1-quart baking dish or a 6-inch baking pan, though these are hard to come by.