All you need are a few simple ingredients–like a chocolate cake mix and some cherry pie filling–to make this easy decadent chocolate cherry dessert.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Sometimes, I crave a rich, chocolate dessert, but I just don’t have the energy to do anything time-consuming or fancy. Enter the Black Forest Dump Cake.
Talk about a delicious, no-effort dessert. This cake is so easy, I had my boys put it together while I made dinner. That’s the beauty of the dump cake.
It really is as simple as dumping a few ingredients into a pan. I popped this cake in the oven when we sat down to eat and an hour later, dessert was served.
Although the chocolate chips are optional in this recipe, I think the vanilla ice cream is an absolute must. And honestly, who is going to say no to more chocolate?
Now I always keep the ingredients for this recipe on hand so I can make it for last minute company, or whenever a dessert craving strikes!
Be sure to save this recipe to your favorite Pinterest board for later.
Ingredients
- Cherry pie filling
- Devil’s food cake mix
- Butter
- Chocolate chips
- Vanilla ice cream, for serving
Black Forest Dump Cake
Ingredients
- 2 20 oz. cans cherry pie filling
- 1 18.5 oz. box Devil’s Food cake mix
- 3/4 cup butter melted
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips optional
- Vanilla ice cream for serving
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° degrees. Lightly grease a 9×13 inch baking pan.
- Dump the cherry pie filling into prepared pan and spread evenly. Sprinkle the unprepared cake mix evenly over the cherry pie filling.
- Drizzle the melted butter over the cake mix and sprinkle with chocolate chips, if using.
- Bake for 1 hour (Don’t worry if there are a few dry patches in your cake. It won’t matter when you scoop it up and top it with ice cream). Spoon warm cake into serving dishes or bowls and top with vanilla ice cream.
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24 comments
Ellie
I think this recipe would have been better if you mixed the cake mix like normal then poured over the cherries. As is, the cake mix part turned out very concentrated in taste and some parts had a sandy texture since it wasn’t mixed with any liquid first. The ice cream helps but I think I will do the recipe differently next time.
Randi Nanfito
Can you be made ahead of time and then reheated in the microwave
Danelle
That should work fine.
Eileene Keating
I do a lot of baking and bring the items into work. Because we have to eat it on the go, typically, dump cakes are a little too “runny/gooey” on the bottom. Has anyone ever tried this recipe, but mix a little of the cake mix into the cherry filling, prior to putting the filling into the bottom of the pan? My guess is it would firm up the filling some, without affecting taste, but what do I know. Comments??
Sharon Ramon
I like your idea of adding some cake mix to the pie filling. I never would have thought of that. Thank you for sharing your thought on this recipe.