Three Ingredient Cherry Cobbler
One of my kids told me he had a craving for cherry pie. Lucky for him, I know a quick and simple way to make something similar in taste to cherry pie put with only a fraction of the effort. This recipe uses a cake mix to help make it quick and easy. I had all three ingredients at home. And you probably do too! I've made a very similar recipe in the past. Take a look at my three ingredient peach cobbler.
Ingredients for Three Ingredient Cherry Cobbler
Yup, three ingredients!
1. A box of yellow cake mix.
2. Two cans of pie cherries (21 oz each)
3. 1 stick of butter.
Want a different cherry cobbler recipe? Try this cherry coffee cake.
Instructions
I used a 9 x 13 casserole dish and thought it was a perfect size.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Spray your casserole dish with nonstick spray.
Dump the cherries into the casserole dish.
I challenge you not to try one of these cherries! Of course, you need to taste test : ).
Slice stick of butter into thin slices. Actually, thinner than what I'm showing. My butter was a little too warm to get thinner slices. The more slices you have, the better your topping is!
Look at the end result below! Yummm. I will confess that because I didn't cut enough slices, there were a couple of dry spots. I gave the top a quick spray with no-stick spray and it made everything nice and brown and yummy looking.
Here's the finished dessert! It tastes sooooo good! If you like cherry pie, this is the easiest way to get all the taste and flavor or cherry pie but no fuss. I've never been good at making pie crust. This is so much easier and just as tasty! Of course, a little scoop of ice cream adds to the deliciousness!
Here's the Printable for this recipe!
PrintThree Ingredient Cherry Cobbler | Dump Cake | Crumble
For all the flavor of cherry pie, with a fraction of the work, this is the recipe!
- Prep Time: 6 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 36 minutes
- Category: dessert
Ingredients
2 cans (21 oz each) pie cherries
1 box yellow cake mix
1 stick butter
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.
Dump cake mix evenly over the cherries
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.
Notes
If you slice the butter thin enough, you should not have any dry cake mix once this is baked.
A scoop of vanilla ice cream is always delicious on any baked good!
Keywords: cherry dessert, cherry dump cake, cherry cobbler
Shelley Robbins
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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momcrieff
Hi Anne,
Thanks for letting me know there are too many ads on my recipe card. I'll look into it and make sure the printable works properly. It may take a few days though. Susan.
Sandi
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.
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Anne
I made this and it was delicious!! I tried to print the recipe but it was covered by ads!! Literally I used paper and lots of colored ink- twice!! And both times were covered by ads and I couldn’t keep the recipe!!
Anne
Thanks for this!! I have it baking in the oven now!!
Jee
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.
Patti
This is so good and easy. I always love a good dump cake recipe.
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