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’ll be making this for a pot luck tomorrow but I’ll be substituting with, no-sugar-added apple pie filling, spice cake mix, and caramel baking bits instead of the white chocolate chips 🙂
Do we cook it on low or high? I looked and couldn’t find that info. I am dying to make this!
This I’d like to know as well. With the cook times listed I’m assuming low would work. I’ll be making this recipe soon. It looks absolutely delicious !
It’s on high, see the full recipe in the recipe card.
Can I use white cake mix instead of yellow?
Yes!
Just found this. Does round or oval slow cooker matter? And does salted or unsalted butter matter? Also no white chocolate chips so I omited. That okay too?
Oval slow cooker slow cooker is best. I like to use salted butter. I think that will be fine without the chips.
Can you use peaches instead of cherries?
You can, or peach pie filling.
I would like to use my fresh boysenberries or satsuma plums, both with a lot of juice when they cook. Can fresh fruit be used this way or is there another type to use with fresh fruit? I have a Instant Pot that I use as a slow cooker
Can this be made with any flavor of cake mix? I was thinking about using apples and a spice mix.
want to do this and use crushed pineapple with juice and yellow cake is this possible to do
Where is the recipe?
I’m seeing here on my screen? It’s below the picture.
Can you use can fruit if you drain the juice .?
I don’t see why not! I would add a touch of the juice though.
So no eggs or milk liquid? what is the liquid that needs to set?