This 3 ingredient easy Instant Pot dump cake is delicious and can be made with any fruit! Just dump it in to cook for 12 minutes and top it with ice cream!
This easy Instant Pot dump cake can be made with any fruit pie filling you like but we chose apple and it came out amazing! If you’ve never made a dump cake it means just that. You mix together two ingredients, dump in your pie filling, your mixture, cook and enjoy! We recently made these crockpot blueberry cobbler in mason jar desserts using the same idea and blueberry is delicious too. Now this is one of our favorite dessert Instant Pot recipes we’ve made, you could make it in a pressure cooker too. 😉 (affiliate links present)
This is all you need:
- Pie filling (we used apple – 2 cans)
- Box of cake mix (we used spice cake mix for the Fall)
- Butter
The cake mix creates a moist cobbler like texture, but softer than if you used the same recipe in the oven. When cooking this easy Instant Pot dump cake dessert it does not rise but that is totally fine. 12 minutes was perfect to cook it just enough to create a warm apple pie like treat. We topped off our scoops with vanilla ice cream which slowly melted and added even more flavor.
The only thing you are “cooking” is the cake mix so it doesn’t need to be in there for long. The apple pie filling has quite a bit of moisture to it so unlike our traditional crockpot dump cake recipe we’ve made often, I found that I needed less butter.
If you love this but would rather use fresh apples you should try our crockpot apple crisp that tastes similar but uses all fresh ingredients. If I am in a hurry I can whip this together and it is enough for all 5 of us to have a warm dessert. Let us know what you think!
This 3 ingredient easy Instant Pot dump cake is delicious and can be made with any fruit! Just dump it in to cook for 12 minutes and top it with ice cream!
- 1 box cake mix
- 2 cans pie filling
- 6 tbsp butter
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Melt your butter and add to a bowl with your cake mix.
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Stir until combined but it will still be dry and clumpy.
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Pour 2 cans of pie filling into your Instant Pot or pressure cooker.
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Pour your cake mixture on top.
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Put lid on, close steam valve, and set to: manual, pressure, high, for 12 minutes.
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Release steam slowly, quickly lift off lid so condensation on inside of lid doesn't empty into pot.
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Let stand for 5-10 minutes so it can stiffen up and settle.
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Serve topped with ice cream!
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Can you do this pip like your peach cobbler your son made? Also, if you can would you melt the butter like this recipe calls to do or would you prepare it like the peach way cutting the butter into the cake mix?
I have always melted my butter first when making dump cakes. You could do pip for sure.
Do you NPR or quick release?
I move steam valve just slightly to let steam out very slowly.
Did you grease the interior of the pot? Is there a problem with sticking?
No I didn’t and had no problems with sticking.
Looks like one I need to try!
EASY dessert in the IP!
Looks delicious. Do you use some kind of pot inside the jnstapot?
No for this one I just put it right in!