This Caramel Apple Dump Cake is a quick and easy shortcut Fall dessert using 6 simple ingredients. Apple pie filling, cinnamon, nutmeg, cake mix, and butter are dumped in a pan, baked and the results are amazing!
Why You’ll Love This Caramel Apple Dump Cake Recipe
- Quick: Dump cakes are our favorite way to make a dessert super fast.
- Simple: With just a few simple ingredients like yellow cake mix, apple pie filling, and butter that you can keep in your pantry, you can make this wonderful apple cobbler inspired dessert any time.
- Crowd Favorite: Everyone always raves over this easy dessert recipe and will never know how easy it is to make!
What is a Dump Cake?
A ‘dump cake’ is a cake using ingredients that are literally dumped in a baking dish together. There is no mixing required, and no extra dirty dishes or mixing bowls have to be cleaned. Usually, fruit or canned fruit is used as the base. Top with a boxed cake mix and a wet ingredient like melted butter. Don’t miss these other great dump cake recipes: Cherry Pineapple Dump Cake | Easy Peach Dump Cake | Pina Colada Dump Cake | Chocolate Cherry Dump Cake | Strawberry Dump Cake | Lemon Dump Cake | Pumpkin Dump Cake | Chocolate Dump Cake.
Ingredients Needed
All you need is 6-ingredients (the exact measurements and full recipe instructions are below in the easy to print recipe card).
- Apple pie filling – any canned apple pie filling brand will work or make our delicious homemade apple pie filling.
- Ground cinnamon – the extra cinnamon really makes the apple pie filling taste good!
- Ground nutmeg – some nutmeg adds a little hint of spice to the apples.
- Caramels – unwrap the caramels and cut each in half
- Yellow cake mix – do not prepare the cake mix; leave it dry.
- Butter – cut the butter into ¼ inch thick pats. It’s best to use salted butter. Do not use margarine.
How to Make Caramel Apple Dump Cake
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- In a medium mixing bowl, mix together apple pie filling, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- Pour the apple mixture into the prepared pan and smooth out evenly.
- Arrange the caramels over top of the apple filling.
- Evenly sprinkle the dry cake mix over the caramels.
- Place the pats of butter evenly over the top of the cake mix.
- Bake the dump cake at 350F for 45 minutes, or until the top is lightly golden brown and the edges are bubbling. Cool slightly before serving.
Topping Ideas
- Vanilla ice cream
- Warm caramel sauce
- Ground cinnamon
- Whipped cream
- Chopped Nuts: pecans or walnuts
How to Store the Leftovers
Keep the leftover cake covered tightly with plastic wrap or transfer it to an airtight food storage container. Keep the cake at room temperature or in the refrigerator for up to five days.
Variations
- Kick up the Spice – Additional spices can be added to the apple pie filling layer. A sprinkling of cinnamon, a pinch of nutmeg, or allspice, are all wonderful spices to stir in to ramp up the the flavor.
- Cake Mix – Yellow cake mix is what we use in this recipe, however, white cake mix and spice cake mix are also great flavor options!
More Apple Cake Recipes You Will Love
- Cinnamon Apple Cake
- Apple Butter Cake
- Apple Cider Donut Cake
- Upside Down Apple Cake
- Layered Apple Spice Cake
Caramel Apple Dump Cake
Ingredients
- 2 (20 ounce cans) apple pie filling
- 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups Kraft caramels unwrapped and each cut in half
- 15.25 ounce yellow cake mix
- 1 cup butter cut into ¼ inch thick pats
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 13×9 casserole dish with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, mix together apple pie filling, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Pour the apple mixture into the prepared pan and smooth out evenly.
- Arrange the caramels over top of the apple filling. Evenly sprinkle the dry cake mix over the caramels.
- Place the pats of butter evenly over the top of the whole dessert.
- Bake the dump cake at 350F for 45 minutes, or until the top is lightly browned and the edges are bubbling.
- Cool slightly before serving.
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175 comments on “Caramel Apple Dump Cake”
I made the peach version with a vanilla cake mix and it turned out great. Only issue I had was after cutting butter I couldn’t get them apart to put on the cake 😀 so I will put back in frig to stiffen before handling to put on the cake. It was easy like she said so I’m not intimidated or afraid it would be like an episode of “Nailed It!”
I’ve made peach dump cake for some time now and you’ve got to slice and apply the pats of butter individually. It’s obviously the most tedious part, but definitely worth it!
I made this and it was great! The only thing I did different was add some cinnamon sugar on top before baking. Great with ice cream and it couldn’t be any easier!
This is probably a great recipe, however, it’s so hard to see in between ALL OF THE ADDS! Sorry, I know this is how you make revenue but it’s very difficult to read.
Dumpdidleyicious!!!
I split the recipe in half then added pecans to the top. Perfection. It was so good we forgot to add a scoop of vanilla ice cream. LOL!
Definitely making this one again.
This is amazing! Everyone loved it and it is so easy to make! I will be adding tgis to my go to recipe box 🙂
I made this last night. Amazing! I used Aldi white cake, caramel dip and 3 cans of their fried apples with cinnamon. I also added nutmeg, allspice and a sprinkle of ginger. Kind of dangerous because I couldn’t stop eating it! I’m glad I found this recipe!
i made this yesterday. it was good. but next time i will use a different cake mix flavor. like butter pecan.
I am thinking I’ll use chopped salted peanuts on top.
I made this cake today. Halved the recipe since its only me and hubby. Used a yellow cake Jiffy mix and for the caramel, I used a jar caramel. It was very good. Will make it again.
How much caramel sauce did you use or would you use for a full recipe
This is in my oven as we speak. I had to cut it down to half the amount because there’s only one of me. And, I found Hershey’s salted caramel chips and used those. I could have eaten the canned apples and the caramel chips uncooked! YUM Can’t wait for this to finish baking!