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Chocolate Cherry Dump Cake

Easy Chocolate Cherry Dump Cake is only 3 ingredients! This deliciously quick & easy dump cake uses sweet cherries (canned cherry pie filling), a chocolate cake mix, and butter to create a magically easy one pan dessert recipe. It's best served with a scoop of ice cream on top - vanilla or cherry ice cream is yummy.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword 3 ingredient dump cake recipe, chocolate cherry dump cake
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 8
Calories 553kcal
Author Jessica - Together as Family

Ingredients

  • 2 cans (21 oz each) cherry pie filling
  • 1 box (15.25 oz) Devil's Food cake mix
  • 12 tablespoons butter melted

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 350℉. Prepare a 9x13 baking dish by lightly spraying with nonstick cooking spray. 
  • Spread the cherry pie filling into the bottom of the pan.
    2 cans (21 oz each) cherry pie filling
  • Sprinkle the cake mix (dry cake mix, do not prepare) evenly over top of the cherry pie filling.
    1 box (15.25 oz) Devil's Food cake mix
  • Evenly pour the melted butter over top the cake mix, and then tilt the pan around a few times to ensure you don't have many dry cake mix spots. 
    12 tablespoons butter
  • Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the cake mix is cooked through and resembles a cobbler-like topping and the cherry pie filling is bubbly around the edges.
  • Remove from the oven and let the dump cake cool for about 5 minutes before serving warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream - or cherry ice cream is yummy too!

Notes

How To Avoid Dry Spots on Dump Cakes : To avoid dry spots, make sure to pour the melted butter evenly over the entire surface of the cake mix. Most dump cake recipes call for the butter to be sliced and then laid over top the cake mix; I don't love that way because the butter has a harder time spreading out over the top of all the cake mix. Melting the butter ensures better coverage. If there are dry spots on top after baking, it just means the butter wasn't spread out well enough. It will still be delicious! Maybe try taking a spoon and mixing the dry spots into the surrounding cake mix before serving.
Butter : I prefer using salted butter but unsalted butter can also be used in this recipe if that's your preference; either one works. 

Nutrition

Calories: 553kcal | Carbohydrates: 81g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 45mg | Sodium: 608mg | Potassium: 340mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 832IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 102mg | Iron: 3mg