Blueberry Dump Cake

My girlfriend Renee has an obsession… with dump cakes. Whenever we go camping she makes 2 – 3 dump cake variations while we are out in the rough.

A dump cake is a type of cobbler that you “dump” the ingredients in a baking dish {or dutch oven} and voila… CAKE! You just open each ingredient and “dump” it in the dish. Are you getting the idea? You dump it… dump it real good ~ sing this to “Push It” from the 80’s as that is the song that plays in my head when we make dump cakes. If you really want to get silly say “dump cake” to sound like the camel from the State Farm commercial when he’s saying “hump day.”

The key to all the dump cakes we make in the “wild” is to use a can of some type of soda that will compliment the flavor.

How do we bake dump cakes in the middle of nowhere with no electricity? We use a cast iron dutch oven and the coals from the campfire to “bake” it. Set the oven in the coals and a few on the top to make the perfect baking scenario.

If you want to try a dump cake baked in the campfire next time you go camping, check out these resources:

• Click here for dump cake recipe books
• Click here to view cast iron dutch ovens

If baking in nature doesn’t sound like something you would want to do, then let’s keep it in the kitchen with this version which doesn’t use a can of soda. Plus, this version is better because we can serve ice cream with it and you can’t really have ice cream on a camping trip!

While dump cakes are not the prettiest to look at, they are one of the easiest to make. Seriously… they are and they taste really really good… really.

Blueberry Dump Cake

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Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes

Total Time 50 minutes

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter, plus more for dish
• 1 (20-ounce) can pineapple, crushed in juice
• 1 (18.25-ounce) box yellow cake mix
• 11 oz package of fresh blueberries
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup pecans, chopped

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Butter a 13 by 9-inch casserole dish
3. Melt 3/4 cup butter in saucepan over low heat or microwave {set aside}
4. Pour the pineapple with juice into the casserole dish
5. 
6. Evenly spread the blueberries over the crushed pineapple
7. Sprinkle the sugar over the fresh blueberries
8. 
9. Evenly spread the yellow cake mix
10. Add the chopped pecans
11. Drizzle with melted butter
12. 
13. Bake for 35 - 45 minutes.

Notes

This is a variation of Paula Deen's Pineapple Blueberry Crunch Cake

Blueberry Dump Cake