Dump cakes are a very popular and easy dessert to make in a Dutch oven while camping and seem synonymous with American Boy Scouts camp cooking. There is a wide range of flavor combinations, this being one of the more popular.
The basic premise of a dump cake is you ‘dump’ a few processed ingredients in a Dutch oven and, often to people’s surprise, a cake is created. Although it is actually more like a cobbler with a cake top and a rich layer of warm fruit on the bottom.
This particular version uses a combination of chocolate and cherry. It combines canned pie cherries and chocolate cake mix to create a rich cake sitting on a gooey cherry base. It is surprisingly easy and tasty.
Although the cake isn’t stirred, it still needs to be slightly blended and flattened to cook evenly.
The paper liner in dump cakes helps a lot with cleaning and stopping acidic fruits from reacting with the seasoning.
The chocolate cherry dump cake can be eaten alone or topped with cream or ice cream.
When baked the chocolate cherry dump cake is more like a cobbler, with a cake top and fruity cherry base.
Chocolate and Cherry Dump Cake Recipe
Dump cakes are a very popular and easy Dutch oven dessert to make while camping. This version creates an addictive combination of cherries and chocolate.
Preparation 5 minutes
Cook 30 minutes
Ready in 35 minutes
Servings 6 Servings
Ingredients
- 1 can (29 oz) cherry pie filling
- 1 box chocolate cake mix
- 1 1/4 cups lemon-lime soda
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
Equipment
- 10 inch Dutch oven
- baking paper
Directions
- Add a layer of baking paper to the Dutch oven as neatly as possible.
- Pour the cherry pie filling on top of the baking paper to create an even layer over the base of the Dutch oven.
- Sprinkle the chocolate cake mix over the cherry base.
- Gently pour the soda over the cake mix.
- Lightly drag a spoon over the top of the cake and soda mixture to slightly combine.
- Lightly scatter the chocolate chips over the top of the cake.
- Set the Dutch oven up to an approximate temperature of 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Cook for 30 minutes.
- Let cool slightly before serving.
Nutritional Information
Sodium: 620mgCalcium: 120mgVitamin C: 4mgVitamin A: 204IUSugar: 38gFiber: 2gPotassium: 342mgCholesterol: 3mgCalories: 491kcalMonounsaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 4gFat: 14gProtein: 5gCarbohydrates: 92gIron: 3mg
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What size can of cherry pie filling?
Use the larger cherry pie filling size, these are normally around 29 ounces.
I have a 14″ dutch oven. Do you think I could double the recipe to serve a bigger group and it would work the same?
Doubling and cooking in a 14 will work fine for a larger group. The extra 2 inches creates a surprising increase in volume that will allow the doubling.
Is this recipe modifiable to serve 7/8 people or will I have to just reduce portion size? I was just wondering.
The portion size can be reduced to serve 7/8 people or the recipe can be doubled and cooked in a 12-inch Dutch oven.
It would probably spill over in a cake pan. I use dutch oven parchment liners and they work great. I have made this cake a few times and gets better each time. No muss no fuss with the liners. And the crowd loves the dessert.
Have you ever made this in a round cake pan inside the dutch oven? Curious if it would fit or spill over?
It can be made in a cake pan in a Dutch oven however it will need a cake pan the size of a 10-inch Dutch oven and then cooked in a 12-inch Dutch oven. Anything smaller and it will overflow.
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