Cake Mix Cobbler

Boxed cake mix cobbler recipes with butter really only needs 3 ingredients to bake this easy dessert with fruit in the oven. If you loved our peach cobbler with cake mix recipe before, you can now use any fruit flavor you like to make other versions right at home.

Cobbler with Cake Mix Recipe

Cobbler by definition is a popular dessert dish. Typically consisting of a fruit filling topped with batter, biscuit type of dough, or a sprinkle of cake mix with butter in this case. It is baked until the topping is golden brown and the fruit filling is bubbly. It is often served warm and can be enjoyed on its own or with a scoop of ice cream or a dollop of whipped cream.

The fruit filling can vary depending on personal preference and seasonal availability, but not in this case. Common fillings we have used have been our Blueberry Cobbler with Cake Mix with canned raspberries, or cherries. The fruit is sometimes sweetened with sugar and ground cinnamon but in this case we’re just dumping the contents right out of the can.

The topping is typically made from a mixture of flour, sugar, butter, and milk or buttermilk. The dough is dropped or spread over the fruit filling before baking. As it bakes, the top puffs up and becomes crisp on the outside while remaining tender and cake like on the inside. We’re using dry mix for apple cobbler with cake mix and all the other versions here.

Ingredients

You REALLY don’t need anything to serve this with once it is done. It is definitely sweet enough already, but that is up to you of course. I will say that our cherry cobbler with cake mix is a fave with a bit larger pieces of fruit.

How to Make Cobbler with Cake Mix

• Preheat oven before you add your filled pan.
• In a bowl mix together yellow cake mix and melted butter to get a crumbly mixture for the top of your dessert.
• Spray 9×13 pan with non stick spray so you can lift it out easily at the end
• Pour in your pie filling, use the flavor of choice, then spread it out evenly so it covers the bottom of your pan evenly.
• Spread crumbled cake mix on the top to give it an extra wow for flavor and added texture too.
• Spray the top lightly with oil to moisten it.
• Bake until top is golden brown and a bit crispy.
• Serve warm with vanilla ice cream on top.

with Frozen Fruit

And there is yet another way we have made it with a bag of frozen fruit. NO need to even defrost this one with frozen peaches inside. We called it Crockpot cobbler with frozen fruit and it was to die for as well. With that it is the same idea where you can use things other than peaches but those remain somewhat firm and give it a nice overall texture.

with Fresh Fruit

Once you fall in love with all of these you might want to go “all in” with just fresh stuff. In that case you can mix and match fruits like we did our leftover cranberry apple cobbler.

with Biscuits

Did you know you could use canned refrigerated biscuits instead of dry mix too??!! We did just that with our cobbler with biscuits here. That is right, instead of a dry mix that needs butter mixed in to get moist for the “crust” you can use a can from Pillsbury for the top instead. That isn’t super sweet so a light sugar glaze of sorts is added with that one.

with Bisquick

Now we have used this type of boxed mix to make something similar too. There isn’t a huge difference except that with our apple Bisquick cobbler I used diced skinned fresh apples which was nice in the summertime. If you like berries you may prefer our Bisquick blackberry cobbler.

Then we will move on to our Instant Pot cobbler with sliced peaches that we have made a time ago. This one uses canned fruit instead of a filling of sorts. You can make it inside the pot itself or use a PIP method that is easier to get your fruit dessert out and serve for sure.

A dry cake mix dump cake of sorts right? If you do put a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top it is best to do so right away so it will melt and add to the “sauce” over the top of it all. Now jump to recipe and try it for yourself friends!