My Recipes

Cherry Pineapple Dump Cake

An effortlessly indulgent dump cake layered with cherry pie filling, crushed pineapple, and golden cake mix topped with pools of melted butter.

Serves 12

This is an old “easy recipe” which is deliciously deadly. Eat with care. The “Cherry Pineapple” rendition is just one way this cake can be prepared; the basic recipe can be altered to use any flavor of cake mix with any variety of canned fruits.

Special Equipment

  • 9x13" Cake Pan

Preheat Oven

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.

Ingredients

  • 1 can cherry pie filling
  • 1 can crush pineapple, in natural juice
  • 120ml (½ cup) chilled butter, cut into half tablespoon pieces
  • 1 packaged yellow cake mix

Preparation

  1. Grease a 9x13" cake pan.
  2. Dump cherry pie filling into cake pan.
  3. Dump crushed pineapple (including juice) into cake pan.
  4. Stir to combine cherries and pineapples; spread evenly.
  5. Dump yellow cake mix atop fruits; spread evenly.
  6. Evenly distribute butter pieces over top of cake.

Bake

  1. Bake 45 minutes or until cake mix is golden brown.

Variations

  • Strawberry pie filling with chocolate cake mix