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!
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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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25 comments
Dorinda
My mom used to make a peach dump cake with canned peaches and yellow cake mix. I never thought before to switch up the flavors, but Black Forest is one of my FAVorites. One tip for the butter, I have always sliced it into thin pieces and spread them out as evenly as possible on the dry cake mix. I don’t usually get many dry patches that way. Although she’s right, any dry spots are not a problem once scooped up and topped with ice cream. And you MUST have ice cream with this kind of dessert! (I think I might even try chocolate ice cream…)
Danelle
Thanks Dorinda. Chocolate ice cream sounds like a great idea!
Cathy
would this work with sugar free cake mix and pie filling?
April Hill
I made this today with sugar free devil food cake mix and sugar free cherry pie filling. I added pecans on top instead of the chocolate chips and skipped the ice cream. It was amazing! ❤️
Danelle
I can’t see why not Cathy.
Anne
Um cake? And chocolate? And ice cream? Heck yes!!!