Strawberry Dump Cake

By Robin Gagnon | Updated on 08/11/2022

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This Strawberry Dump Cake recipe is incredibly easy to make and only requires 3 ingredients! It's a great no fuss dessert to make with the kids for Valentine's Day. Just top it with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. I will walk you right through making this easy strawberry dessert. Even if you are a terrible cook...You’ve got this!

If you need a simple foolproof dessert for Valentine's Day, try this easy strawberry dump cake recipe. While this is called a dump cake the resulting dessert is more like a pink cobbler than a cake. As strawberry boxed cake mix is used for the topping*, this is double strawberry and pink through and through. This is a classic “true” just dump the three ingredients in a baking pan and bake. As long as the ingredients are somewhat evenly distributed, the recipe is pretty much fool proof. Even if you slightly over or under bake the dessert it will still be tasty.

*Yes, you can swap white or yellow cake mix if you prefer, no problem.

If you are having a pink themed party serve this along with, Strawberry Jello Salad andStrawberry Cake Mix Cookies. For drinks;Copycat Starbucks Strawberries and Creme Frappuccino orStrawberry Candy co*cktails.

How to Make Strawberry Dump Cake

Here is a quick visual guide to making this easy pink dump cake. If you find pictures reassuring that the steps are being done right when following a recipe, this is for you. Full printable recipe card can be found below.

All you need to make the yummy cobbler dessert:

a can of strawberry pie filling
box of strawberry or white cake mix
1 ½ sticks of butter

You will also need a baking dish and non stick cooking spray.

Instructions

First preheat oven to 350 degrees.

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Coat the interior of a 9 x 13 casserole dish with non stick spray.

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Dump a can of strawberry pie filling into the baking pan and spread evenly across the bottom.

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Recipe Variations!

There are quite a few ways to change things up when making this strawberry cobbler style dessert recipe.

You can add some crushed pineapple or cooked/ canned rhubarb into the filling to jazz things up.
Use the cold butter method, as I did in my Oreo Dump cake. In this technique instead of melting the butter is sliced. The pats of butter are then arranged on top of the boxed cake mixture.
Use chocolate cake mix for a chocolate covered strawberry dump cake. Of course , you can use white, yellow, butter or lemon if you want. Mix things up!
Another way to make a chocolate strawberry dump cake is to add a layer of fudge sauce over the strawberry pie filling in the recipe, like I did with my Chocolate Cherry Dump Cake.

Fresh or Frozen

If you want to use fresh strawberries or even frozen strawberries in this easy dump cake recipe, that is totally doable. All you really need to do to swap for the pie filling is add some sugar to the fresh strawberries.

The sliced strawberries are mixed well with a ¼ cup of sugar to coat them. Simply dump the coated berries in the casserole dish as you would the pie filling.

You could even do a mixed berry version if you like.

Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake

If you want a strawberry cheesecake dump cake, simply add a layer of dollops of room temperature whipped cream cheese between the strawberries and the cake mix topping. Also, mixing the butter into the cake mix to create a crumbly topping is recommended.

Cook time will be roughly the same as primary recipe, regardless of the variation you choose.