Recipes & Cooking Desserts & Baking Cakes 13 Dump Cake Recipes for When You Need an Easy-to-Make Dessert Whip up a cake in three simple steps: dump your ingredients, mix (or don’t, sometimes), and bake—no mixer, saucepan, or other special tools required! By Andrea Beck Andrea Beck Andrea Beck served as garden editor at BHG and her work has appeared on Food & Wine, Martha Stewart, MyRecipes, and more. Learn about BHG's Editorial Process and Sarah Martens Sarah Martens Sarah Martens is the Senior Editor overseeing food at Better Homes & Gardens digital. She has been with the BHG brand for more than 10 years. Learn about BHG's Editorial Process Updated on November 7, 2023 We love sinking our forks into a homemade cake, but finding the time to bake a cake from scratch isn't always easy. Enter dump cake recipes to save the day. They cut out most of the prep work that comes with making a cake, require very few ingredients, and are delicious (we could rave about this all day). The only thing we love more than a classic dump cake recipe is one made in the slow cooker. We've got some of those, too, so you don't even have to turn on your oven. Your next go-to easy dessert is just a few steps away. Strawberry Dump Cake Rachel Marek. Prop Styling: Gabe Greco This dump cake recipe uses fresh strawberries in the filling and crushed pretzels on top to help keep it from being too sweet. We're topping the finished strawberry dump cake with a big scoop of cheesecake-inspired cream cheese whipped cream. View Recipe Chocolate Dump Cake Rachel Marek. Prop Styling: Gabe Greco Rich and fudgy, this dump cake recipe is a chocolate-lovers dream. For the most decadent flavor and texture, this chocolate dump cake recipe calls for both cake mix and pudding. Top the baked cake with semisweet chocolate chips and serve it warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. View Recipe Blueberry Dump Cake Grant Webster This is our take on the classic pie filling and cake mix dump cake recipe. It's as easy as dumping the cans in the baking dish and topping the filling with a box of cake mix. If you want to add a little more flavor, our Test Kitchen recommends adding vanilla extract to the blueberry mixture. View Recipe Caramel Apple Dump Cake Rachel Marek. Prop Styling: Gabe Greco If you love a caramel apple but don't want to fuss with making one, this is the dump cake recipe for you. Dress up canned apple pie filling with caramel sauce, spice cake mix, salted butter, and toasted pecans. The finished apple dump cake is sweet with a rich, crunchy topper. View Recipe Apple-Cherry Dump Cake Blaine Moats Rather than choosing between a cherry dump cake recipe and an apple dump cake recipe, make them both at once. This slow cooker dessert will be popular with fruit fans thanks to chopped apples, dried cherries, and a pinch of apple pie spice. If you want to make your dump cake more indulgent, dress it up with a scoop of cherry or vanilla ice cream and add a cherry on top. View Recipe Black Forest Dump Cake Grant Webster The combination of chocolate and cherries is a classic and for good reason. It's delicious! Here, we're using canned cherry pie filling, almond extract, and devil's food cake mix. This big-batch chocolate cake recipe is ideal for parties and potlucks as it serves 12. View Recipe Lemon Poppy Seed Dump Cake Andy Lyons You'll make this lemon dump cake recipe entirely from scratch (no boxed cake mixes), but it's as easy as any other on this list. Stirring in fresh lemon zest and a spoonful of poppy seeds gives each bite of this slow cooker dump cake its signature flavor. Thanks to the bright, lemony flavor, this cake tastes just like summer—even more so when topped with fresh berries. View Recipe Cherry Dump Cake Grant Webster If you're new to making dump cakes, start here. You'll need just 10 minutes of prep to make this cherry dump cake recipe. Start by dumping cherry pie filling into a baking dish and sprinkling on a box of yellow cake mix. Dot on pats of butter and bake until golden brown. View Recipe Hummingbird Dump Cake This pineapple dump cake recipe tastes like a traditional hummingbird cake but is much less work. You don't even have to do any mixing. Start by dumping crushed pineapple and banana slices into a 13x9-inch baking pan, then sprinkle on pecans, cinnamon, and our favorite shortcut ingredient—cake mix. When it's finished baking, it tastes best with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a few extra pecans on top (especially when it's fresh out of the oven). View Recipe Peach Dump Cake If you're craving a summery dessert, look no further than this easy peach dump cake recipe. It only has three ingredients—a can of peach slices, a package of yellow cake mix, and butter. Dump the peaches in a baking dish, shake your cake mix over the peaches, top with butter, and bake. Easiest cake recipe ever! View Recipe Oreo Dump Cake Rachel Marek. Prop Styling: Gabe Greco If you love chocolate, this is the dessert for you. Our rich chocolate dump cake recipe is loaded with Oreos, chocolate cake mix, and whipped topping. Finish the dish with crushed cookies and serve with a big glass of milk. View Recipe Pumpkin Dump Cake Rachel Marek. Prop Styling: Gabe Greco If you look forward to a slice of pumpkin pie every year but don't want to mess with making one, try this dump cake recipe. It's made with a can of pumpkin puree, cake mix, and a crunchy pistachio topper. All that's missing is a scoop of whipped cream. View Recipe Mixed Berry Pudding Cake Jason Donnelly You'll never miss the frosting on this slow cooker dump cake recipe. The juicy berries dumped in first (a combination of blueberries, raspberries, and cranberries) are yummy enough to replace frosting completely. To keep this slow cooker cake extra moist (and enhance the pudding flavor) while it cooks, pour a mixture of hot water and sugar on top of the batter. View Recipe Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit