Easy Instant Pot dump cake recipe with pie filling is delicious! Made with cake mix like our 3 ingredient dump cake, topped with ice cream, it is the perfect little pressure cooker dessert youโre whole family will enjoy.
This easy cake can be made with any fruit pie filling you like. We chose apple and it came out amazing! Now this is one of our favorite dessert Instant Pot recipes weโve made, you can make it in any brand of pressure cooker you might have at home. ๐ (affiliate links present)
Instant Pot Apple Dump Cake
If youโve never made our Apple Spice Dump Cake it is easy. All you do is you mix together a few ingredients, dump in your pie filling, cook and enjoy! We recently used white cake mix with blueberry pie filling and those flavors are delicious too.
Over the years we have tweaked this a time and again. I will say that apple is very much our favorite but of course the options are pretty endless. If you have a springform pan and really are craving something deep you can give our pudding cake a whirl too.
in Ninja Foodi
You can do the same thing below in your Crockpot Express or as a Ninja Foodi recipe too. The only difference with this brand is you use the lid that is not attached to pressure cook.
Ingredients
- Pie filling โ really the best is apple or cherry pie filling
- Box of cake mix โ best one has been spice cake mix or homemade yellow cake mix works too
- Egg added at room temperature
And a few cups of water are needed to steam it. We topped it off with scoops with vanilla ice cream which slowly melted and added even more flavor. Itโs pretty amazingโฆ.
Equipment
24 ounce (or so) oven safe dish & trivet to cook this using the PIP method. I will either spray the inside of the foil with nonstick spray or use non stick aluminum foil if I have it on hand. If you donโt have it it isnโt a deal breaker. It will just stick slightly to the top where the foil meets the dump cake.
Substitutions
The apple pie filling has quite a bit of moisture to it so unlike our traditional dump cake recipes I used an egg instead of butter. These are NOT dry at all and continues to cook while it is cooling. So if it looks a bit wet when it comes out not to worry. It will be perfect when itโs cooled.
We have also used yellow cake mix + a can of apple pie filling as seen below. It comes out a looser consistency than the spice cake mix and takes a bit longer too. You can make cherry pie filling dump cake this same way with that other flavor.
How to Cook Instant Pot Dump Cake
- In a bowl make your batter with your cake mix and egg. Once incorporated, then add pie filling and fold together so it is combined well.
- Pour water into Instant Pot which will allow it to steam.
- Put a trivet at the bottom of your pot for the pot in pot technique to cook this.
- Spray your oven safe bowl with non stick spray and add cake batter into dish.
- Cover with foil so the condensation doesnโt make the top wet.
- Set to pressure cook, high, set the timer for 25 minutes cook time or so with a natural release (donโt touch steam release valve).
- Remove foil, and rest on a cooling rack so it can stiffen up and settle. Serve topped with ice cream!
Whipped cream or ice cream works for the top of the cake if you wish, itโs plenty sweet as is though. If you were really against processed, I would follow our Instant Pot Apple Crisp recipe instead with fresh fruit.
Cooking Tips
Tips to remember are: allow the steam to naturally vs. a quick release. This will allow the cake to continue cooking and not fall. It needs a bit of time to stiffen and settle in too so allow some time to rest once itโs done. Spray cooking spray inside the cake pan for easier clean up.
What does pot in pot mean?
I have made this right in the pot as you see in this video but some said they had some issues with it getting stuck so the one below is using the pot in pot method. That means that the cake batter is in a pot, which is placed inside the inner pressure cooker pot to steam, not directly inside.
Leftover boxed cake mix recipes should reach room temperature and then stored in an airtight container in your fridge though. When youโre done making this you should try our other Instant Pot dessert recipes
- Our pressure cooker donuts are so fun
- We have a list of other easy dump cake recipes using fruit filling ideas of all kinds, instructions here are for the oven too
Instant Pot Dump Cake Recipe
Equipment
- 1 pressure cooker
- 1 24 ounce ramekin or up to 32 works
Ingredients
- 1 cup cake mix
- 1.5 cup pie filling
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Pour your cake mix in with 1 egg and mix together, then add pie filling and fold together so it is combined well.
- Pour 1.5 c of water into your Instant Pot and put a trivet at the bottom of your pot.
- Spray your oven safe bowl with non stick spray and dump your dump cake mixture into your dish, cover that with foil (can spray underside of foil with non stick spray to avoid sticking as well, I do) and make a sling out of foil to lower it on to your trivet inside your Instant Pot.
- Put lid on, close steam valve, and set to: manual, pressure, high, for 28 minutes. Do a natural release.
- Take out, remove foil, and let stand for 5-10 minutes on a cooling rack so it can stiffen up and settle.
- Serve topped with ice cream!
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
We never have leftovers but if you did you could put foil over the top and put into the fridge. Enjoy it within the next 2 days or so for optimal results and taste.
Not in order to serve it, most times theyโre served warm. If you do have leftovers you should cover it once cooled and keep in the fridge. Since there is typically fruit inside it will spoil faster if not kept cold overnight.
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Good morning! This recipe looks wonderful. Would a springform pan meant for a 6 quart IP work? I will use a gluten free yellow cake mix as I have never seen a GF spice cake mix. I was wondering what spices to add and how much of each. We like a lot of spice in our desserts! I will try apple first but cherry sounds yummy too! ๐
I used 1 cup of ALDI gluten free yellow cake mix and it came out wonderfulโฆ
Recipe looks great and super easy! I canโt wait to try it. Iโm fairly new to the IP world but get confused with posted cook times. This recipe shows 10 minutes prep, 25 minutes cook and total time of 32 minutesโฆ
The recipe instructions indicate a high pressure cook time of 28 and a natural release. Based on some of my previous cooks it would be more likeโฆ.10 minutes prep, 28minutes, minimum 10 minutes for NPR and not even considering heat up time to get to pressure. It looks like I would need to plan on at least an hour from start to finish on this one.
In general, what is the โTotal Timeโ in recipes supposed to represent?
Are there some basic assumptions that Iโm missing?
When planning a meal this becomes very important.
Keep up the great recipes!!!
I noticed this is 1 c cake and 1.5 c fruit filling. (NOT a whole cake mix nor a whole can of filling) Notes say this amt is too much for a 7 X 3โณ which is what fits my 6 qt IPโฆ.what size pan in cups did you use. Nowhere does this recipe give me a clue what size or type dish/pan to use. Help please.
Yes. There is a link above in what you need that says oven safe dish. It takes you to the 24 oz dish I use.
I have the 3qt mini should I halve the ingredients โ using a 6โณ pan that fits in the mini
If pan is same size then timing is the same.
I have yet to try making a dessert in my IP. I think Iโm going to start with this one! Yum!
Itโs so easy and always a hit.
Love finding new recipes that make my life easier.
Couldnโt be any easier than this.
Iโm going to try this but using ramekins instead for a lot of little dump cakes ๐
Let me know how they turn out.