This easy dessert is delicious any time of year!
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❤️ Why you'll love it
- Incredibly easy recipe. Three-ingredient easy, to be exact!
- Gooey caramel sauce and tender apples pair perfectly with moist, delicious cake.
- Very little prep work is needed to make the perfect quick dessert for potlucks, holiday dinners, or cozy family movie nights!
Apple dump cake is the easiest dessert to make because you simply "dump" all the ingredients into the slow cooker—no mixing, blending, whipping, or beating necessary. The only thing that makes it better is a scoop of vanilla ice cream and some whipped cream on top!
🧾 Ingredients
This is an overview of the ingredients. You'll find the full measurements and instructions in the green recipe card (printable) at the bottom of the page.
🔪 Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. Full instructions are in the green recipe card at the bottom of the page.
- Melt the butter in a small bowl.
- Spoon the caramel apple pie filling into the greased crockpot.
- Top the apples with yellow cake mix.
- Pour the melted butter carefully over the cake mix and cook.
🥫 Storage
This crockpot caramel apple dump cake recipe is just as easy to store as it is to make!
Let leftovers cool to room temperature before packing them into an airtight container. Refrigerate for up to four days. You can eat it cold, or warm it in the microwave to your liking.
This dump cake is made with simple ingredients that all freeze well, so feel free to seal any leftovers tightly in plastic wrap and freeze them for up to three months. Let thaw in the refrigerator and then microwave to heat.
📖 Variations
Caramel apple dump cake is a sure-fire crowd-pleaser, especially with your special touch of personalization!
- Embrace your favorite flavor with a different cake mix. You could try a white, vanilla, chocolate, or spice cake mix!
- Or, switch it up with alternate fruit fillings. Pineapple, blueberry, or cherry pie filling would taste great, too.
- Get fancy with different toppings. Cinnamon sugar is our personal favorite, but you could also try sprinkling the top of the cake mix with nuts, oats, caramel bits, white chocolate chips, or an extra caramel drizzle.
💭 Things to know
Expert Tip: You can check the apple dump cake for doneness the same way you check a cake baked in the oven. Stick a toothpick in the middle and if the toothpick has wet batter on it, keep 'er cooking. Keep in mind that moist crumbs are okay, and the caramel apples underneath will be gooey.
- As always when cooking in a crockpot, keep the lid closed as much as possible. This helps maintain proper cooking temperature.
- Spray the crock with no-stick cooking spray before adding the apples for easy clean up!
👩🍳 FAQs
Sure! Using fresh apples seasoned with apple pie spice is a great way to enhance the authentic fall flavors.
If you'd like to speed up the process, follow the same instructions above using a baking dish or casserole dish instead. Bake at the temperature indicated on the cake box for around 45-55 minutes.
Nope, don't add anything to the cake mix! Layer the dry cake mix over the apple mixture, then add the butter on top of that. The beauty of a dump cake is in its simple assembly.
📚 Related recipes
- This easy Southern Peach Dump Cake has it all—bourbon, pecans, and cinnamon, oh my!
- Give this Dutch apple pie recipe a try, too.
- Swedish Apple Pie combines tangy, tender apples with a crumbly crust reminiscent of delicious apple streusel.
- Skillet-baked Bourbon Apple Pandowdy is a delicious All-American dessert cross between a cobbler and pie—my two favorites!
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📞 The last word
Once you have a bowl of this with a scoop of cinnamon gelato melting on top you'll be hooked!
If you click on the number of servings in the recipe card you can adjust the measurements up or down for the exact number of servings you need. Don't forget that you can click on "add to collection" to save it to your own, private recipe box!
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Caramel Apple Dump Cake
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Ingredients
- 15.25 ounces butter cake mix
- ½ cup butter, melted
- 40 ounces caramel apple pie filling, 2- 20 ounce cans
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Instructions
- Spray the inside of a crockpot with non-stick cooking spray.
- Add the apple pie filling and smooth it out into an even layer.
- Sprinkle the cake mix over top.
- Carefully pour the melted butter over the top of that.
- Cover and cook on low for 4 to 5 hours, or until done.
- I like to sprinkle the top with cinnamon and sugar before serving.
- Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
Notes
- You can check the apple dump cake for doneness the same way you check a cake baked in the oven. Stick a toothpick in the middle and if the toothpick has wet batter on it, keep 'er cooking. Keep in mind that moist crumbs are okay, and the caramel apples underneath will be gooey.
- As always when cooking in a crockpot, keep the lid closed as much as possible. This helps maintain proper cooking temperature.
- Spray the crock with no-stick cooking spray before adding the apples for easy clean up!
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