Apple Dump Cake

Sep 17, 2025 - 13:00

This Apple Dump Cake is your new dessert BFF. You can just toss it together, pop it in the oven, and let the magic happen. Sweet, simple, and seriously so delicious.

A Reader’s Review

So easy and SO delicious!!! I will be making this again and again!

– Alexis

Why You’ll Be Obsessed With This Recipe

5-Ingredients! Just five everyday ingredients come together for a cozy dessert with almost no prep.
Top It Your Way! You can add ice cream, caramel, nuts, whipped cream, or any combination of these. Or eat the cake as is!
Tried & Loved by Many: With so many rave reviews, you can trust this one’s a keeper. It brings that warm, gooey comfort vibe every time.

Apple Dump Cake Ingredients

Cake Mix Switch! You can change up the flavor of the cake mix. Apple dump cake would be delicious with a spice cake mix.

How to Make Apple Dump Cake

This is the dessert I turn to when my sweet tooth is calling, but I’m not in the mood for critical baking! You just dump, sprinkle, butter, and bake! You can also make my peach dump cake for a unique twist!

Prep: Preheat the oven to 350°F, then spray a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Spread the apple fruit filling evenly into the bottom of the prepared pan.
Dry Ingredients: In a medium-sized bowl, combine yellow cake mix, cinnamon, and chopped pecans.
Cake Mix: Sprinkle the cake mixture evenly over the apple pie filling.
Butter & Bake: Place pieces of salted butter on top of the cake mixture, then bake for 50-60 minutes or until golden brown and bubbly. Serve the apple dump cake warm with caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream.

Baking dish with apple pie filling spread out on the bottom.

Cake mix, pecans, and cinnamon whisked together in a bowl.

Apple Dump Cake

With only a handful of ingredients, this Apple Dump Cake is as simple as it is delicious.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword apple cake, apple dump cake, apple dump cake recipe, dump cake

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1

Servings Servings

Calories 324kcal

Author Alyssa Rivers

Ingredients

2 (21-ounce) cans apple fruit filling
1 (15.25-ounce) box yellow cake mix
2 teaspoons cinnamon
½ cup chopped pecans
1 cup cubed salted butter

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Spray a 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
Spread 2 (21-ounce) cans apple fruit filling evenly into the bottom of the prepared pan.
In a medium-sized bowl, combine 1 (15.25-ounce) box yellow cake mix, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, and ½ cup chopped pecans. Sprinkle the cake mixture evenly over the apple pie filling.
Place pieces of 1 cup cubed salted butter on top of the cake mixture.
Bake for 50-60 minutes or until golden brown and bubbly.

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Notes

Storing & Reheating

Room Temperature: Wrap the pan with plastic wrap or foil and leave the dump cake on the counter for 1-2 days.

Refrigerate: Place the leftover apple dump cake in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days.

Reheat: When ready to warm up, use a microwave or bake in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until warmed through.

Nutrition

Overhead shot of apple dump cake mix in a baking dish and a serving spoon.

More Apple Dessert Recipes to Try

If you love apple desserts, you’ve come to the right place. I LOVE apple dessert and have so many fun recipes for you to try! Let me know which ones are your favorites and what you’d like to see more of!