The Classic Dump Cake

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 12:09:45 CST
From: Jim Sleezer <JHS8@OSUVM1.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Dump Cake

Dump a bunch of stuff that looks like what a cake should be into a dutch oven, mix it up and bake it! We always used a recipe for a scratch cake out of any handy cook book, sometimes doubling (or more) to fit the pan remember that a 12 inch ducth oven is almost twice the volume of a 9 inch cake pan. Our favorite trick was to develop measure in "hands" rather than cups-you just have to get relatively close and it works fine!

jim Sleezer

Roundtable Commissioner, Pawnee Bill District, Will Rogers Council Stillwater, OKlahoma
JHS8 at OSUVM1.BITNET JHS8 at VM1.UCC.OKSTATE.EDU (Internet)

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 13:29:51 -0500
From: Larry Rinaldo <lrinaldo@R02DG05.R02.EPA.GOV>
Subject: Re: Dump Cake

Here are a few:

LAZY COBBLER

When the Dutch Oven is preheated, put the whole can of peaches and juice into the oven.
Then add the dry cake mix on top of the peaches.
Place several pieces of butter on top, and sprinkle cinnamon all over.
Place lid on the over and bake about 45 minutes.
The recipe will give a layer of peaches with a cake covering that serves 8.

Variations

  1. Stiff the cake mix and peaches when placed in the overn to provide a more spongy layer of cake.
  2. Use canned apples instead of peaches, and add 1 tablespoon, cinnamon and 1 teaspoon allspice to the apples.
  3. Use canned cherries instead of peaches, and add more sugar with the cherries.
  4. Instead of white cake mix, use a yellow or spice cake mix.

PINEAPPLE UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Place butter and brown sugar in the oven and stir until well mixed. Place the pineapple slices in the butter and sugar mixture in the bottom of the oven.

In a separate bowl, mix the cake mix and the egg. Pour this batter over the pineapple in the oven, then put the lid on the oven and bake about 30-40 minutes. Test the cade for doneness with a straw or toothpick.

When the cake is done, remove the coals from the oven, remove the lid and let the oven cool for about 10 minutes. Using a large cutting coard or a piece of card-board, covered with waxed paper, hold the board on top of the oven and invert the oven quickly. This will allow the cake to fall on the board and the pineapple will be on the top. A safer way to support the cake when you invert it is to cut the cardboard in a round piece the same size as the cake, and it will fit inside oven on the cake; then when the oven is inverted, the cardboard can be held directly under the cake.

This serves about 8.

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:35:23 EST
From: "Carl H. Russell, III" <tijc02!JCENG2!HRUSSELL@UUNET.UU.NET>
Subject: Re: Dump Cake

Joe,
Here's the recipe I use:

Ingredients:

'mixing'

cooking

optional extras

  1. spread brown sugar between layers and on top
  2. spread thinly sliced almonds on top about 5 minutes before finished baking

Enjoy!

This is _almost_ fool proof. At one leadership training course, the quartermaster purchased pitted cherries and devils food cake mix! The result tasted much better than it looked.

In Scouting,

Hunter Russell
JCENG2!HRUSSELL@tijc02.uucp
Rt. 8, Box 277 Siemens Industrial Automation, Inc.
Johnson City, TN 37601 Johnson City, TN 37605

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 13:13:55 -0600
From: Steve Tobin <srtobin@skypoint.com>
Subject: Re: Dump Cake

Dump Cake Recipe

  1. Open 1 (or two) cans of pie filling. Dump into a Dutch oven.
  2. Take 1 (or two) boxes of cake mix. Dump in on top of the pie filling. Don't mix them up. They mix enough as they cook.
  3. Place 2 or 3 pats of butter on top, sprinkle with cinamon (sp?) if you are feeling fancy.
  4. Cover. Place about 15-20 charcole bricketts on top of the over, about 8-12 underneath. (the colder it is outside, the more you will need. Better to start plenty - you don't need to use them all)
  5. Bake for 20 minutes, give or take.

Hints:

  1. Line oven with aluminum foil and oil it. Saves a lot of cleanup time. Oil the Dutch oven also... the foil is bound to leak a little.
  2. Don't overheat the bottom or you will burn the cake. Better too little than too much.
  3. Use whatever cake and filling flavors that grab your fancy.

Enjoy.

Steve Tobin, SM
Troop 39, Cannon Falls, MN; Cannon River District
Gamehaven Council (Southeastern Minnesota)

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:38:00 EST
From: Daphne Nessler 656-2437 <DAPNES@CLEMSON.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Dump Cake

I'm sending this to the list incase anybody else wanted the recipe. I just happen to have it here at work. You will need to modify the recipe for your Dutch Oven.

Dump Cake

Preheat oven to 350 (or have hot coals ready)

Spread cherry pie filling into a 9 by 13 inch pan.
Spread pinapple chunks on top. (my recipe does not say if you use the juice but i do) spread cake mix on top.
Melt butter and pour on top. Top with coconut and nuts.
Bake for about 1 hour.

My own notes.

I use margrine instead of butter and only used about 1 3/4 sticks.
I use bagged coconut and use about a cup of it.

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 14:43:00 CST
From: "R L Ontjes 319-335-5457 (Bob)" <CWCRLOTS@UIAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Dump Cake

To be PC, should nopt these now be called Landfill cakes ;-)
Sorry, could not resist. It is Fri afternoon, right?

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 23:11:49 -0500
From: David Weintraub <davidw@CNJ.DIGEX.COM>
Subject: Dump Cake

Joe Cremer:

Here's the recipe for dump cake:

In a 9x9 pan (9x13 might work), dump in the pie filling. On top of that, dump in the yellow cake mix. Then cut the butter up into small slices and place on the top. Bake at 350 degrees until top is brown (30 minutes?).

Sometimes I use two cans of filling or two sticks of butter. This is not exactly French cooking, so don't worry about exact proportions.

Hope this works.

David Weintraub
davidw@cnj.digex.com