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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Savoring Spring with Dump Cake

This spring, we went and picked cherries for the first time.
Have you ever been cherry picking? It was a great family activity. We picked about 15 pounds in just over half an hour. Next time, we need twice that.

As it turns out, my kids really like cherries. They ate more than they pitted. After they filled their bellies with cherries, we made some yummy desserts then froze the rest.
 3 helper eating the cherries
We have made lots of things with the cherries, but this just may be my favorite because it is so simple. I am sure you probably know what a “Dump Cake” is. You open a few cans of fruit, dump them in a pan, cover with cake mix and bake. You can still do that with this recipe, but I kind of upped it a little by making my own cherry pie filling with cherries my family picked. It seems like the more times my kids hands touch something, the more likely they will eat it. (But maybe I don’t want them eating this because that means there is less for me. Hmmm. I’ll have to rethink this one;)
I froze the cherries in 3 cup servings and this works well with the recipe I tweaked for this.
I mix in a saucepan:
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 Tablespoons arrowroot starch (you can use cornstarch)
Add:
3 c frozen cherries
1 teaspoon vanilla (homemade is best…It is time to start mine for Christmas this year but that is another post)
4 cooking down the frozen cherries
Simmer for 25 minutes. Then cool completely.
5 mix in some crushed pineapple
In a pan, mix together a large can of crushed pineapple and the cherries.
6 mix butter and a cake mix
Take about 3/4 of a box cake mix and mix it with 4 Tablespoons of butter until all the mix is crumbly. This part is important to me because I don’t want to eat dry cake mix if it doesn’t have enough butter to saturate it. Blech. Spread the mixture over the fruit and bake for 40-50 min on 350.
7 make sure it covers the pan
It is ugly, it is heavenly, it is easy. Go forth and make some dump cake!
 8 dump cake is done
Of course, if you don’t have frozen, handpicked cherries, you can use a can of cherry pie filling and still enjoy this super easy and yummy treat.
~Anjeanette

8 comments:

  1. I love dump cake~so easy and soooo good! I better it's even better with FRESH fruit!

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  2. Cherry is my favorite fruit. I can never have enough cherries. So does everybody in my family. I am afraid that we can't make any cake with it. Have you got any left-over. :)

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