This Caramel Apple Dump Cake melds all of your favorite fall flavors and “dumps” them into a baking dish, resulting in a scrumptious apple caramel cake that is delicious with a velvety scoop of vanilla ice cream!
More tasty desserts right this way! Next, try my Best Baked Apples, Apple Pie, Apple Dutch Baby, Apple Cinnamon Pancakes, and Super Easy Apple Cobbler.
Why This Recipe Works
Easiest Cake Ever: Seriously, this caramel apple dump cake is the easiest cake you can ever make. No mixing necessary!! Just layer the ingredients and bake. It turns out similar to a cobbler, but with a bit more substance and a delicious caramel apple combination.
Fall Flavors: This is the perfect fall-inspired dessert to make when you want something delicious but easy to make. The easy apple filling is perfectly sweet and spiced, and the caramel adds a touch of extra sweetness that balances out the slightly tart apples!
Ingredients
- Canned Apple Pie Filling: To keep things easy, you can just use canned apple pie filling!
- Werther’s Soft Caramels: Chill the soft caramels so that they are super easy to cut into halves before baking.
- Flour: As the base of the cake.
- Sugar: To sweeten things up!
- Baking Powder: For a nice rise in the oven!
- Salt: To balance the flavors.
- Cinnamon: Warming fall-inspired spices like cinnamon go really well with the caramel apple flavors in this cake.
- Butter: Melted butter is poured over the top of the dump cake for moisture and flavor!
Here’s How to Make It
Step by Step Instructions
- Preheat & Start Assembly: Preheat the oven to 350. Spread the apple pie filling across the bottom of a large, deep baking dish. (photo 2)
- Prep Caramels: With a sharp knife, half the caramels and scatter them evenly across the pie filling. (photo 3)
- Combine Dry Ingredients: Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon and sprinkle the mixture over the apple pie filling so it is as covered as possible. (photos 1 & 4)
- Add Melted Butter: Sprinkle over the melted butter so it covers as much as the flour mixture as possible. (photo 5)
- Bake: Bake for 45 minutes, until the top is golden and the pie filling has started to bubble through. (photo 6)
- Rest & Serve: Allow to rest for 10 minutes before serving with vanilla ice cream.
Expert Tips
- Serve it warm! The best way to serve this easy caramel apple dump cake is warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. If you don’t have ice cream, try it with some whipped cream!
- Add pecans! For a nutty addition, add some crushed pecans! They also add a lovely texture.
- Use a cake box mix for ease, and omit the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Then sprinkle a little cinnamon on the cake for the added flavor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Caramel apple dump cake can be stored well covered at room temperature for up to 2 days, or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days! Zap it quickly in the microwave to get it warm again.
Yes! If you have never made a cake in the slow cooker, it is actually possible! Assemble the cake just as you would for baking, and cook on high for 2 hours. Put some paper towels underneath the lid to absorb the moisture and allow the top to firm up. If you have a smaller crock pot, half the recipe.
More Fall-Inspired Dessert Recipes
- Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Sugar Frosting
- Caramel Butter Bars
- Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting
- Mini Salted Caramel Cheesecake
- Caramel Pecan Pumpkin Cheesecake
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Caramel Apple Dump Cake
Ingredients
- 2 21 oz cans of apple pie filling
- 16 Werther's soft caramels - chilled, see note
- 2 ¼ cups flour
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- ¾ tsp salt
- ¾ tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup melted butter
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350. Spread the apple pie filling across the bottom of a large, deep baking dish.
- With a sharp knife, half the caramels and scatter them evenly across the pie filling.
- Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon and sprinkle the mixture over the apple pie filling so it is as covered as possible.
- Sprinkle over the melted butter so it covers as much as the flour mixture as possible.
- Bake for 45 minutes, until the top is golden and the pie filling has started to bubble through.
- Allow to rest for 10 minutes before serving with vanilla ice cream.
Notes
- If you wish to make this dump cake with boxed mix, substitute it for the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, and sprinkle the cinnamon over the top before adding the butter.
- Chilling the caramels makes halving them much easier!
- To make this Caramel Apple Dump Cake in the Slow Cooker follow the same assembly method and cook for 2 hours on high with a couple of folded pieces of kitchen paper under the lid to absorb the moisture and to help the top firm up. Half the recipe for smaller slow cookers.
Oh yummy!! This looks amazing!
That looks perfect! Such a great use for homemade caramel sauce 🙂
I agree! Not that pouring right on top of the ice cream isn’t already a stellar idea… but putting INSIDE makes it even better!
This recipe looked so good and I made it right away. I decided to cut the sugar in half and the mix tasted great and certainly sweet enough for us. My only question is that when it froze, there were lots of very large ice crystals. I didn’t whip the cream mixture. did I do something wrong?
Hi! Hmmmm, that’s strange, I haven’t had that issue with this recipe! Did you cover the container when you put it in the freezer?
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