50+ Dump Cake Recipes

Easy dump cake recipes for you to enjoy. A quick boxed cake mix dessert with fruit is sometimes all you need to satisfy your sweet tooth and these are great.

Dump Cake Recipes Using Cake Mixes

I love these because they’re so easy using fresh fruit, frozen like our peach cobbler with cake mix, or pie filling you can make them year round. Let your kids help you as you just layer and many times don’t even mix ingredients together. It is a little like a science experiment in the kitchen you can then eat.

Most only need 3 ingredients; mix, butter and pie filling does it! Start with our blueberry cobbler with cake mix and then mix up the flavors.

I have made them in my Instant Pot, crockpot, and in the oven as well. I don’t care how they’re done, they’re an easy throw together quick easy dessert that’s perfect when I want something sweet.

3 Ingredient Dump Cake Recipes 

Now most use the same basic items. As far as the fruit, filling is usually easiest. You should start with our 3 ingredient dump cake here using a can of pears and go from there.

Below you can see another easy one but with pie filling, our apple spice dump cake but any flavor could be used. Let us know which easy dump cake is your favorite, or maybe there’s one you’ve made recently that’s not on the list….I’d love to give your idea a whirl too!!

1. Box of cake mix – you can find a variety here. I would have to say spice cake mix is probably my favorite during Fall and Winter.
2. Can of pie filling or pumpkin puree – this is how to make homemade pressure cooker pumpkin puree
3. Eggs or melted butter – eggs will make it rise more than butter will

We did use canned yams too in our Sweet Potato Dump Cake.

Almost all of these are baked in the oven using a 9×13″ pan but there is a way to make it using your countertop appliance. Yes Crockpot Pumpkin Dump Cake and other flavors are possible as well!

And a video look at a few of our favorites:

• Pineapple angel food cake recipe – seen below and needs just 2 ingredients to make!
  • Chocolate angel food cake is simple with just 3 ingredients too
• Cherry pie filling dump cake – you could use blueberry too.
• This pumpkin pudding cake is an easy dump cake that is SO moist.

Dump Cake Recipes Easy

Use the flavors you love. There are hundreds of different combinations if you use one type of cake mix and swap different fruit inside.

• Cherry pineapple dump cake recipe is amazing using cherry pie filling and crushed pineapple. Just use yellow or white cake mix with a stick of butter for about 30 minutes in a baking dish. Serve warm!
  • Our chocolate cherry dump cake is great too using the same pie filling.
• Peach dump cake with fresh peaches, cobbler style is amazing topped with vanilla ice cream.
  • Instant Pot peach cobbler is a great choice too.

I suggest using cooking spray inside your pan so it slides out nicely. Helps with clean up too. Dry cake mix of any flavor can be used for all of these. On top of the cake you can add whipped cream or ice cream of course. I have used pie filling or canned fruit to make peach cobbler with cake mix.

Made with Yellow Cake Mix

I will say that I rarely use fresh fruit for these. A few reasons why; you lose the liquid portion that you get with canned filling, also there’s a lot more prep work removing the skins.

• Gingerbread dump cake is perfect for the holidays!
• Pressure cooker lava cake – amazingly rich but so worth it.
• Banana dump cake uses fresh bananas and can be made egg free too.
• Pumpkin angel food cake is so light and fluffy with a hint of pumpkin for a Fall dessert 

The easiest of them all is just combine the 3 ingredients with a can of fruit. We used pears but peaches would be wonderful too.

• Peach angel food cake just has 2 ingredients too.
• Instant Pot chocolate pudding cake is dense and amazing for sure.
• Best Instant Pot dump cake – best with spice cake mix and apple pie filling!
• Banana pudding cake is great if you love bananas like we do.
• Egg nog pudding cake is a dump and go classic that’s great during the holidays.

If you’re new to how to make a dump cake it is quite simple. They usually require less than 4 ingredients total and have a super moist taste with a ton of flavor. I recommend making it in the oven but if it is really hot you can use your slow cooker like we did with this crockpot lava cake.  I have made pressure cooker dump cakes as well.

• Strawberry dump cake is a fun one, and then try our strawberry bread pudding next
• Peaches and cream dump cake

Our Crock pot dump cake is yummy! On top of the fruit pie filling you just sprinkle the cake mix on top and you need no other brown sugar or sweetness of any kind. It’s plenty sweet for sure.

Using your slow cooker will definitely take longer than the traditional 45 minutes or so. It does come out a looser consistency too so if you want it a bit stiffer, stick with oven directions.

• Dump cake from our favorite Pioneer Woman
• Blackberry dump cake is a new flavor you should try sometime.
• Earthquake cake is something new. Have you tried it yet?

Here are some more easy dump cake recipes plus how you can make yellow cake mix yourself and use that for the base of your dessert!

• Instant Pot cake was one of our first pressure cooker dessert recipes on the blog. Once again, comes out looser than others but fun.
• Blueberry pie filling dump cake – we made these into cupcakes which worked amazingly well.

with Chocolate Cake Mix

• Peanut butter cup dump cake
• Poke cakes can be considered dump cakes because they’re so easy too like our s’mores poke cake that is always a hit!
• Best Chocolate dump it cake cannot be more simple really
• Salted caramel chocolate dump cake is over the top wow.
• Strawberry cheesecake dump cake

Fruit dump cakes

• Apple pie bread pudding can be made with any pie filling you love
• Cranberry cobbler recipe uses leftover sauce after the holidays which is a nice twist

Why we love easy dump cakes

1. They are EASY
2. Dump cakes satisfy my sweet tooth
3. Talk about super cheap to make
4. None of them require a lot of ingredients
5. I can have everything on hand at all times and throw together at the drop of a hat
6. They’re just so moist and yummy!

Here is how to make angel food cake mix recipes too. It’s hard to say what the best one would be but if I had to choose. I might say our blueberry dump cake cupcakes might top the list (seen above).

• Lemon pudding cake
• Sugar cookie butter dump cake
• Do nothing tornado cake
• Hot chocolate dump cake

We will continue to add to our list each week. So bookmark this page for more easy dessert recipes!