Slow Cooker Cherry Dump Cake
This Cake is easily thrown together with ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. It is also a great way to free up your oven for cooking dinner when company is coming over!
Slow Cooker Cherry Dump Cake
INGREDIENTS:
1 box Yellow Cake Mix
42 oz Cherry Pie Filling (2 cans)
1/2 cup melted Butter
DIRECTIONS:
Combine melted butter and cake mix in a bowl. Mix until well distributed.
Grease slow cooker.
Spread contents of both cans of cherries on bottom of slow cooker.
Crumble batter mixture over top of cherries.
Cover and cook on high for 2 hours or low for 4 hours.
Slow Cooker Cherry Dump Cake
Ingredients
- 1 box Yellow Cake Mix
- 42 oz Cherry Pie Filling, 2 cans
- 1/2 cup melted Butter
Instructions
- Combine melted butter and cake mix in a bowl. Mix until well distributed.
- Grease slow cooker.
- Spread contents of both cans of cherries on bottom of slow cooker.
- Crumble batter mixture over top of cherries.
- Cover and cook on high for 2 hours or low for 4 hours.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
Liz Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys cooking and baking, food photography, and reading.
Oh wow — this looks amazing! I have pinned it for a night I am craving cherry goodness!
I’ve made this in the oven but never in a slow cooker. What size slow cooker do you use?
How long did you cook it in the oven?
I’ve made this in the oven and followed the cake box direction for bakining but waited until the top was golden brown and bubbly filling. Some recipes say the oven bake time is 50 minutes.
making this tomorrow. should I use salted or unsalted butter? or does it matter?
I always use salted because I can’t be bothered to buy unsalted. ;)
Can you add chopped pecans?
Adding a teaspoon of almond flavoring makes this especially yummy!!
Could you add a can of drained crushed pineapple
Making this for my Dads Birthday this weekend. Family will be at hotel, and thinking this would be perfect!! Cant wait =)
wondering if I double the recipe will it work and do I double the time? Maybe just two crock pots would work better….thoughts?
Not sure, I’ve never tried doubling it. I would use two just to stay safe.
You make it in the oven too, as a dump cake. Look for cherry dump cake.
Sounds good will give it a try
Thanks
I have a big bag of fresh cherries in my freezer, can I use them and if so how many cups would I need?
You would need to turn them into cherry pie filling for that to work.
I just made 2 cans of tart cherries into actual cherry pie filling by cooking them to simmer (10-15 min, med heat, covered sauce pan), separately mixing 1 cup sugar and 1/4 cup cornstarch, adding that to the cherries in the saucepan to simmer, turn to low, stir 2 minutes, and BOOM! Cherry pie filling.
Cook top Stove says to make cherry filling use: 1 cup sugar, 3 T corn starch, 1 T lemon juice, and 4 cups pitted cherries. Simmer till thick.
No stirring? I hope lol I have it in the crockpot now cooking and its on low for 4hours and still looks pretty soft on the top. Normal?
Might should add that its been in for two hours currently
Nope, no stirring. It will never firm up like cake, its more like a cobbler and it will remain looking soft on the top. The first time I made this I didn’t trust the results and I let it cook for like 8 hours because I didn’t think it was “done”. Only after I scooped it out did I realise that it was actually indeed done… and err.. well after 8 hours it was overdone.
9×13 pan, 350 degrees, 30 minutes. Can top with nuts if desired. DO NOT try chocolate cake mix with cherry pie filling – wrong flavors, epic fail! White cake & Peach pie filling, Apple Pie filling & Spice Cake. Blueberry would work with yellow cake mix. Can make 2 8×8, just split cake mix & butter . Can do Jiffy cake mix = half size, 1 can pie filling. DO NOT double contents in 9×13 pan, will not work. Use 2nd pan. Great warm or cold for potlucks & picnics, impervious to temps & “looking perfect” like icing getting bumped or runny. I have not made in slow cooker, but have made this dump cake for decades. Top with ice cream! I want to eat the entire thing, just looking at your picture. MUST make for this weekend!
Thanks I may try this instead.
Funny..I did chocolate cake with cherry and it turned out great.
Me too and it is always a big hit
Thank you so much Carol. I’m going to bake it in oven because I don’t want to have to wait two hours.
I made this and it turned out to be one big clump. It was horrible. We had to add ice cream to be able to eat it and even then it was barely eatable. Not sure what went wrong.
can you make with chocolate cake batter?
Yes, but it doesn’t taste as good as you think it would. :/
This recipe is the bomb! I’ve made this several times. So easy and sooooooo good! Thanks for posting it!
What size of crock pot did you use?
This recipe is a favorite, but why use a slow cooker when it can be made so quickly?
One yellow Jiffy cake mix, one can of cherry pie filling (or other favorite filling), one stick of melted unsalted butter. Spray 8″ square pan, spread filling on bottom, dump dry cake mix on top and spread evenly, pour melted butter on top. Bake 350 degrees for one hour. Delish! You can sprinkle pecans over pie filling if you like nuts.
What do I grease crockpot with? crisco? butter?
I realize this response is 4 years later, and you’ve long figured it out by now:) But I love using crockpot liners – cleanup is a breeze
Can I use peaches (cans) instead of cherries?
Thank you! ❤️
This recipe looks so yummy, I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for recipe….
This Cherry Dump cake looks Fantastic, can’t wait to try it. Thanks for sharing..
What size crock pot do you use?
Making this now but mine is in the oven.
Baked in oven, used blueberries, so good !!!!
What size slow cooker for the cherry dump cake?
I would prefer to use a french vanilla cake mix in place of the apple crock pot recipe and also the cherry crock pot recipe. I say that only because I don’t like spice cake and I don’t like the color of yellow cake. I assume it will taste just as delicious. What great recipes though when you have company. Dessert doesn’t have to be another course you have to struggle with.
My apple dump cake in the slowcooker ( insta pot slow cooker) on high 4 hours cooked the apples but the cake did not cook at all. I had to carefully scoop it all out, put it in a cake tin and cook it in the over to get the cake to cook.what did I do wrong?
Hi Wendy, sorry that happened! This recipe requires a traditional slow cooker so that the steam can escape via the glass lid. When using the insta pot in slow cooker mode the steam has nowhere to go and unfortunately can make things soupy.
Can I use 2cans of cherry pie filling and 1box of cake mix and butter in a 8×8 pan.
I would use a 9×13 pan, it will over-fill a square pan. Then bake at 350 for 50-55 minutes.
Did I miss it? Did you say what size crock pot to use.
6 quarts.