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    Home » Easy Recipes

    Cherry Cobbler with cake mix

    Published: Jul 19, 2023 by Susan Moncrieff · This post may contain affiliate links · 5 Comments

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    When you have a craving for cherry pie, this cake mix cobbler is the quickest and easiest way to satisfy this craving.  This recipe is delicious and requires only three ingredients. There is a good chance you already have these at home.

    cherry cobbler with cherries spilling onto white plate

    This is a three-ingredient cherry dump cake-style cobbler.  It's more delicious, easier, and quicker to make than running to the grocery store when you have a cherry pie craving!  If you are looking for some other cherry-flavored desserts, try this cherry cobbler with cake mix or this chocolate cherry dump cake

    If you are looking for an apple-style dessert with only three ingredients, try this three ingredient apple spice cake. Blueberry craving? This easy blueberry cobbler is a similar recipe using blueberries.

    Why I love this

    • It tastes delicious and satisfies that cherry pie flavor craving.
    • This is easy to make. Mix, stir, bake, and then serve.
    • It uses simple pantry ingredients that you can store at home.
    • My family loves this! My kids really enjoy eating the canned cherries that are a part of this recipe.

    Table of contents

    • Why I love this
    • Ingredients
    • Instructions
    • Helpful hint
    • How to store
    • FAQ's
    • Other easy fruit cobbler desserts

    Ingredients

    • Yellow cake mix.  It doesn't matter what brand.  If you don't have a yellow cake mix on hand, chocolate tastes great with cherries!
    • Two cans of pie cherries (21 oz each).  That would be the larger (but not huge) can.
    • 1 stick of butter.  Salted or unsalted, it doesn't matter; either one will taste good.

    Were you looking more for a scratch cake?  Try this easy cherry coffee cake.  It still uses cake mix, but you add more ingredients to make it more homemade.

    Instructions

    I use a 9 x 13 baking dish.
    Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

    Step 1
    Spray your casserole dish with nonstick baking spray.
    Dump the cherries into the bottom of the casserole dish.

    canned cherries being dumped into a casserole dish

    I challenge you not to try one of these cherries!  Of course, you need to taste test : ).

    Step 2
    Add the cake mix on top of the cherries.  You want an even thin layer.  Just the dry cake mix.  Do NOT use the other ingredients listed on the box. Do not stir!

    Cake mix being dumped on canned cherries in casserole dish

    Step 3
    Slice a stick of butter into thin slices.  The more slices you have, the better your topping is!

    Bake for approximately 35 minutes in the oven until the topping is golden brown.  There are usually spots where the cherry filling bubbles up.

    Step 4
    Look at the end result below!  Yum!  

    Helpful hint

    If you have a few dry spots,  give the top a quick spray with no-stick spray, and it will make everything nice, brown, and yummy looking. See the FAQ tip further down.

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    Here's the finished dessert!  It tastes so good!   If you like cherry pie, this is the easiest way to get all the taste and flavor of cherry pie but no fuss.  Of course, a little scoop of ice cream adds to the deliciousness!

    cherry cobbler with ice cream

    How to store

    This stores well in the refrigerator for five days if wrapped or in a sealed container.
    This easy cobbler recipe can be frozen, but that may affect the texture. Since this is such a quick and easy recipe to make, I would only freeze it if it's because you have leftovers. Thaw to room temperature and bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees before serving.

    FAQ's

    If there are some cake mix dry spots, what can I do?

    Spray some baking or cooking spray on the dry spots. Bake an additional 5 minutes.

    I don't have a yellow cake mix. What can I substitute?

    Chocolate cake mix and pie cherries taste amazing together. You'll love the flavor!

    The cake mix box says to add other ingredients.

    To make this recipe, you don't add them. You use the dry cake mix straight from the box. Honest. It might look funny, but it turns out great.

    Other easy fruit cobbler desserts

    • three ingredient peach cobbler
      Three Ingredient Peach Cobbler
    • serving of blueberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream.
      Easy Blueberry Cobbler
    • Cherry coffee cake. Quick and easy to make. Tastes fabulous!
      Easy and Quick Cherry Coffee Cake .
    • a serving of strawberry dump cake with vanilla ice cream on a white plate.
      Easy Strawberry Dump Cake

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    cherry cobbler with ice cream on a white plate

    Three Ingredient Cherry Cobbler with Cake Mix

    For all the flavor of cherry pie, with a fraction of the work, this is the recipe!  Only 3 ingredients and about 35 minutes in the oven, you have a delicious, quick and inexpensive dessert.
    5 from 8 votes
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    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes
    Total Time: 35 minutes minutes
    Servings: 12
    Calories: 340cal
    Author: Susan Moncrieff

    Ingredients

    • 2 cans cherry pie filling 21 oz each pie cherries
    • 1 box yellow cake mix
    • 1 stick butter salted or unsalted

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
    • Spray 9 x 13 casserole dish with no-stick spray.
    • Dump two cans of canned cherries into casserole dish.
    • Spread cake mix evenly over the cherries.  You are using the dry cake mix with no additional ingredients.
    • Thinly slice one stick of butter.  The more slices, the better!   Spread them on top of the cake mix.
    • DO NOT STIR.
    • Bake for 30-40 minutes.  Watch for the color to be a delicious golden color.
    • If you notice at 30 minutes that there is dry, cake mix, take it out of the oven and spray a bit of non-stick spray on the dry parts.  Put it back in the oven for a few minutes (3 to 5 minutes).

    Notes

    If you slice the butter thin enough, you should not have any dry cake mix once this is baked.  If you do, spray a little baking or cooking spray on the dry spots and bake for 5 more minutes.
    A scoop of vanilla ice cream is always delicious on any baked good!

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1g | Calories: 340cal | Carbohydrates: 63g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 20mg | Sodium: 392mg | Potassium: 126mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 438IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 104mg | Iron: 1mg

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    A piece of cherry cobbler on a white plate.

    Originally published May 25, 2020.

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    1. Shelley Robbins

      April 29, 2021 at 9:56 am

      5 stars
      I want to say “Thank You!!” This is delicious!! I have made a few times after printing the recipe from your website!! I have made peach and apple cobbler as well-using this easy and fast recipe!! My grown-up kids LOVE it!! And love that they get to request apple, peach or cherry!!

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    2. Sandi

      June 09, 2020 at 1:02 pm

      Here's how I make mine, pretty similar but a little different.

      Ingredients:
      1 box white cake mix
      1 or 2 cans cherry pie filling
      one stick of butter

      optional:
      chopped walnuts to taste
      cinnamon to taste

      Add: nuts and cinnamon to dry mix, if you want.
      1. Melt butter in a separate bowl and using a knife or fork, slowly pour melted butter and cut into dry cake mix so that you have little chunks.
      2. Put cherry filling into a glass dish, I also add cinnamon into the cherry filling.
      3. Sprinkle butter, cinnamon and walnut infused cake mix over top of cherries and bake at 350 for approximately 45 minutes.
      I always put the dish on some type of baking pan or foil in case of drip over.

      Reply
    3. Anne

      June 07, 2020 at 3:03 pm

      5 stars
      Thanks for this!! I have it baking in the oven now!!

      Reply
    4. Jee

      June 07, 2020 at 10:15 am

      5 stars
      Just made this recipe and it was very good. So simple. I added 1/2 t. of cinnamon and 1/4 t. of nutmeg to the cake mix.

      Reply
    5. Patti

      June 07, 2020 at 9:12 am

      5 stars
      This is so good and easy. I always love a good dump cake recipe.

      Reply

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