During the holidays, it seems most of us are busy, but want to serve a good seasonal dessert. Dump cakes are very quick to put together, and they fill the house with great smells. This Cranberry Apple Dump Cake takes about 10 minutes to put together – the filling is just 2 cans of cranberry sauce and one can of apple pie filling, and it bakes for about an hour. It has plenty of crunchy topping made easy with a cake mix topped with plenty of real butter.

Incidentally, if you haven’t noticed, cake mixes have shrunk again. They used to be 18.25 ounces, then they shrunk to 15.25 ounces. Just recently, the food companies have shrunk them even more to 14.25 ounces. They are still the same price (up due to the runaway inflation since 2020), but in this case, there is enough to still make a good crust on this dump cake.

12 Servings

2 14 oz. cans whole berry cranberry sauce
1 21 oz. can apple pie filling, (use kitchen scissors to cut the apple pieces right in the can

1 14.25 ounce (or 15.25 or 18.25 – whatever you have in your pantry) white or yellow cake mix
1 cup butter, 2 sticks cut into thin pieces

vanilla ice cream

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Mix the cranberry sauce and apple pie filling and spread evenly over the bottom of a 13" x 9" shallow glass baking dish.
3. Sprinkle the cake mix over the filling and arrange the butter slices evenly over the cake mix.
4. Bake 55-60 minutes or until the top is golden brown and the filling is bubbly.
5. Remove from the oven and let sit 5-10 minutes before serving with vanilla ice cream.

Amount Per Serving
Calories 446 Calories from Fat 172
Percent Total Calories From: Fat 39% Protein 1% Carb. 61%

Nutrient Amount per Serving
Total Fat 19 g
Saturated Fat 11 g
Cholesterol 43 mg
Sodium 395 mg
Total Carbohydrate 68 g
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Sugars 15 g
Protein 1 g

Vitamin A 13% Vitamin C 2% Calcium 0% Iron 2%