German Chocolate Spoon Cake
26 Comments Jul 12, 2016
Updated Jun 25, 2025
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This decadent Slow Cooker German Chocolate Spoon Cake is a delicious spin on German chocolate cake. It’s served warm and scooped instead of sliced.
Recipe Highlights
- This German Spoon Cake is everything you want in an easy dessert—rich, gooey, and full of flavor.
- With a soft chocolate base, melty chocolate chunks, sweet coconut, and crunchy pecans, it tastes like a cross between a lava cake and German chocolate cake.
- It all comes together in the slow cooker, no oven or fuss required.
- Perfect for holidays, potlucks, or anytime you’re craving a warm, indulgent treat.
Key Ingredients
- Cake Base: German chocolate cake mix, eggs, melted butter, water, vanilla
- Sweet Toppings: Sweetened coconut flakes, milk chocolate chunks
- Crunch & Flavor: Chopped pecans, pinch of salt
How to Make German Chocolate Spoon Cake
- Mix up the batter and pour it into your greased slow cooker.
- Sprinkle with coconut, chocolate, and pecans.
- Cover and cook until set, then scoop and serve warm.
How to serve:
- Serve warm with ice cream and whipped cream!
- Or you can refrigerate and serve cold.
- If you want the classic gooey German chocolate cake, you can drizzle over sweetened condensed milk, or try my slow cooker German chocolate cake.
German Chocolate Spoon Cake Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 15.25 oz German Chocolate cake mix
- 1/2 cup salted butter, melted
- 1 cup water
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 cup sweetened coconut flakes
- 1 cup milk chocolate chunks, or chips
- 1/2 cup pecans, chopped
Optional Toppings for Serving
- vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, mix the cake mix, melted butter, water, eggs, vanilla, and salt until just combined.
- Do not overmix, it is ok if there is small lumps in the batter.
- Spray the slow cooker well with non-stick spray.
- Pour the batter in to the slow cooker.
- Sprinkle over the coconut, chocolate chunks, and pecans.
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 1 hour and 45 minutes.
- Serve with ice cream and enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
Try one of these other desserts in your slow cooker:
Slow Cooker Christmas Candy and S’mores Cake are fun, crowd-pleasing treats that bring plenty of sweetness with minimal effort.
For something warm and cozy, try Slow Cooker Gingerbread Cake or Blackberry Cobbler—both are rich with comforting flavors.
If you’re in the mood for something light and citrusy, Slow Cooker Lemon Spoon Cake is a bright and simple dessert option.
Awesome I’ve actually made this several times, if I am careful I can turn it upside down over a plate and it comes out like a cake an I frost it like a German chocolate cake my kids all like it.
Mine came out dry and crumbled; I followed the recipe. Even the ice cream didn’t do the trick.
Yummy
Having some family over tomorrow night…long overdue because of Covid….plus German chocolate is my husbands favorite. This sounds absolutely heavenly!! Thank you for sharing!!
I’m German and we don’t have such a cake recipe.
Nope, this cake is named after a man named Samuel German, who knew? Thanks for bringing that up!
So Awesome to find this recipe Sarah, I’ve subbed your site which for me is a rare thing. And have just recently discover the wonderful things my two crockpots can do! I have had no oven for the last 6 months as we are remodeling, and am elated to find so many wonderful “baked” treats, that we have done without until now. It never occurred to me to try baking in it! Now, I’m sold – oven or no!
Re:” German Chocolate Cake “origin,
German’s (as in the surname) Chocolate Cake is the official name, and all of America, for ages, has just called it “German Chocolate Cake. The recipe is found on the back of every German’s Sweet Chocolate baking bar with which it is traditionally made. It is our personal family favorite- with a double recipe of the coconut pecan frosting and filling – which I will top this cake with in its warm, melty yummy goodness for the full experience-
Anyone double it? How much longer does it need to cook?
Made this today for a friend’s birthday at work. It was a hit! I’ll definitely be making it again. Thanks for sharing!
That is awesome. We love this cake too!
I put a crockpot liner in crockpot to save clean up time. I also put a couple of paper towels on top before lid to catch the water drops. Some crockpots get hotter on the edges so if your does put a piece of foil on that edge before putting in liner.
This looks and sounds incredible, yum!
xx Kelly
Sparkles and Shoes
How much butter???? 1/2 stick, 1/2 cup, 1/2 lb????
1/2 cup, thank you! I will fix that