Slow Cooker Cherry Dump Cake
57 CommentsUpdated Jul 11, 2025
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All you need to make this easy slow cooker cherry dump cake is a few ingredients! Cake mix, butter, cherries, and white chocolate chips come together for an easy dessert everyone is sure to love.
Recipe Highlights
A dump cake is a cake that doesn’t require any bowl or mixing, just layer the ingredients
This cherry dump cake is full of yummy juicy berries
Feeds a crowd for very little money and mostly pantry items
Key Ingredients
Cake Mix: For this recipe, I used a box cake mix – Betty Crocker Super Moist yellow cake mix. You may also want to try my Chocolate Cherry Dump Cake.
Cherry Pie Filling: Find this on the baking aisle, be sure it doesn’t say lite or sugar free.
Salted Butter: This will be melted and poured over the top to help make the cakey layer.
White Chocolate Chips: One of the other highlights of this recipe is the chocolate chip finish on top. It adds the right amount of sweetness without being too overbearing.
How to make Crockpot Cherry Dump Cake
- Layer cherry pie filling in the crock, then blanket it with dry cake mix.
- Drizzle melted butter over everything and scatter on white-chocolate chips.
- Cover and slow-cook until the top looks cakey and the center sets.
Sarah’s Tips & Variations
Cake mix Swap: Can use any cake mix of your choice, white, spice or chocolate are great choices. We’ve even used lemon!
Filling Change: Blueberry or Apple Pie filling can be swapped for the cherry filling.
Condensation: If you are worried about condensation, dding a clean kitchen towel or a couple of paper towels between the lid and the slow cooker. Though, there isn’t enough in this recipe that I think this is necessary.
Gluten Free or Sugar Free: You can use gluten-free or sugar-free cake mix with this recipe, it works great.
How to serve:
- A (generous) scoop of cherry dump cake and a scoop of vanilla ice cream is one the best ways to serve this amazing dessert.
- You can also get creative with the toppings by adding whipped cream, extra cherries, crushed pecans, or even a dash of ground cinnamon.
- Don’t hesitate to serve this dessert as-is too.
Slow Cooker Cherry Dump Cake
Equipment
Ingredients
- 42 oz. can cherry pie filling, (two -21 oz. cans)
- 15.25 oz. yellow cake mix
- ½ cup salted butter, (1 stick) melted
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- vanilla ice cream for serving
Instructions
- Spray your slow cooker with non-stick spray.
- Spread cherry pie filling on bottom of slow cooker.
- Next sprinkle entire box of yellow cake mix on top of filling.
- Drizzle melted butter over cake mix.
- Sprinkle the white chocolate chips (1 cup) over the butter.
- Put the lid on, and cook for 2 1/2 hours on HIGH or until the center is set.
- Set slow cooker to warm until ready to serve.
- Ladle into bowls, and serve with vanilla ice cream.
Sarah’s Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
Try one of these crockpot desserts next!
Slow Cooker Flan and Peach Upside Down Cake deliver silky caramel and sticky peach bliss.
Slow Cooker Apple Dump Cake teams with Slow Cooker S’mores Cake for two gooey, effortless crowd-pleasers.
Candy Bar Fondue and Strawberry Rhubarb Dump Cake finish the lineup with molten chocolate fun and sweet-tart crumble. Or try my pumpkin cobbler for a fall taste.
I am going to try this. I love crockpot cooking. Thank you for sharing
Can this be doubled or even tripled for more servings?
I’m not sure how it would cook up if it was doubled 🙂
Thanks for linking up last Saturday at Saturday dishes. I too love my crock-pot. Thanks for sharing!
Blessings,
Diane Roark
This looks fantastic! and easy! Thanks so much for sharing this at Saturday Dishes. We will be featuring this post when the new party goes up tomorrow night. Pinning.
Thank you so much Lucy! How exciting!
very nice and intersting. this is very helpfull// iam from israel and i love chocoltte / i share alink to my website hope that is ok 🙂
How many servings does this make?
About 6 people 🙂
i says right on the recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!!
um……YES PLEASE! Holy schnikes this looks fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing on the PINcentive Blog Hop! Pin’ing, sharing & eating ASAP! =) Marcy
I made this today. Smelled fabulous while it cooked until I started to notice a burnt aroma in the last 30 mins. It was not done in the middle at the 2 1/2hrs so I continued for another 30 mins on low. I’m just wondering if anyone has had a problem with it burning around the edges and if it should cooked on low? The rest of it tastes great!
What brand of slow cooker did you use? Some cook hotter than others.
I used a Rival crockpot.
Thats what I used too, I’m stumped. Well I’m glad you got to eat part of it 🙂
Is a slow cooker the same as a crock pot? Probably not but hoping that it is for these delicious recipes
Hi Carla, Crock Pot is just a brand of slow cooker, so yes they are the same 🙂
I make a similar cake but in the oven and I use a can of cherries, 1 can drained pineapple chunks, 1 box butter cake mix (I prefer D.Hines), coconut flakes sprinkled across the top and 1 stick of melted butter on top making sure to get all the coconut. I bake it for about 45 to 55 minutes at 350 and it is fabulous. Not so sure it would come out crisp on the top if I made it in a crock pot.
Cooking this right now, just another hour and it will be done. I used peaches instead of cherries cause I love peaches.
Looks yummy! I will definitely have to try this as I love simple to follow recipes. Plus I love cooking with my crockpot 🙂