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.
Can I put chopped walnuts or pecans on the top instead of ch chips? .. Would I need to add any type sweetener since the walnuts or pecans wouldn’t be sweet like the ch chips .. Thanks
It will be plenty sweet without the chips. That walnuts or pecans would be great in this.
That does sound great. They do have a butter pecan cake, but can’t recall what brand. Just so you know. ☺️
Any recipes for the small slow cooker, cakes and main dishes.
Hi Sarah, I don’t have any, I cook quite big portions because there is 3 of us in my family and my husband takes the leftovers to work.
I am wanting to make this Sunday. But, I need to double it. I need it for a party so I don’t want to try it and it fail. Has anyone tried doubling it? Maybe it would be better to do it in the oven. Does anyone have experience with doubling it in the oven? If so, what size pan?
Do you think it would be okay to double the recipe?
I’m making this now it’s been cooking for 2.5 hrs and doesn’t look like it is setting up chips still and in shape not melted. Should I turn it down to low and cook longer than 3 hrs?
Yes, turning to low would be good. 🙂
I made this today and it burned and didn’t set up 🙁
Liz, how old is your crockpot? Sounds like it is on its way out.
So we don’t use any of the other ingredients that the cake Box asks for meaning like the eggs
Yep! That’s correct Lori 🙂
CAN YOU USE CHOCOLATE CHIPS AND CHOCOLATE CAKE MIX FOR THIS…LIKE A BLACK FORREST DUMP CAKE?? JUST CURIOUS AS I HAVE ONLY SEEN DUMP CAKES WITH YELLOW CAKE MIXES..WONDERED IF YOU COULD USE CHOCOLATE AS WELL??
Yep! here is a recipe for chocolate: https://www.tammileetips.com/crock-pot-chocolate-cherry-dump-cake/
I make this in the oven at 350 for 45 minutes. Like it better in the oven.
Thanks for the oven directions!