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This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake recipe is sweet, creamy, and bursting with berry flavor, but the best part is that you only need four simple ingredients to make it! Layers of strawberry pie filling, dollops of cream cheese, and buttery cake mix are mixed and baked into a gooey, golden dessert that tastes like strawberry cheesecake in cobbler form.
This strawberry cheesecake dump cake recipe is truly one of the easiest desserts you will ever make—ranking right up there with other dump cake favorites like my blueberry dump cake and lemon cream cheese dump cake!
Quick Tip
Want a little extra cheesecake flavor? Mix a splash of vanilla extract or a spoonful of powdered sugar to the cream cheese before layering it into the pan.
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Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake Recipe
Equipment
- 9×13 pan
- Rubber spatula
Ingredients
- 1 21 ounce can strawberry pie filling
- 1 8 ounce block cream cheese softened and cubed
- 1 15.25 ounce box yellow or white cake mix
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted
- Optional for topping: fresh strawberries, whipped cream, powdered sugar
Instructions
- Gather your ingredients together then preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Spread the strawberry pie filling evenly in the bottom of the dish.
- Dot the cubed cream cheese across the top of the pie filling.
- Sprinkle the dry cake mix evenly over everything—do not stir.
- Drizzle the melted butter evenly over the cake mix.
- Bake for 40–45 minutes, until the top is golden brown and the filling is bubbly. Let cool slightly before serving. Garnish with fresh strawberries and whipped cream if desired.
Notes
- Best served warm, but it’s delicious chilled too!
- Store leftovers in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
Variations
- Switch up the flavors. Use any type of pie filling to make a new, tasty cheesecake dump cake. Blueberry pie filling, cherry pie filling, and peach pie filling will all work well.
- Make it chocolate. Swap the vanilla cake mix for chocolate cake mix to make a super decadent chocolate-covered strawberry cheesecake dump cake.
- Add some crunch. After spreading the strawberry filling in the bottom of the dish, sprinkle 1/2 cup of chopped nuts on top of the filling for some added flavor and a little bit of crunch.
More Delicious Dump Cakes
- This chocolate cherry dump cake is one of my favorite desserts to make all year long.
- My pineapple upside down dump cake is a fun, easy twist on a classic cake.
- I love making peach dump cake, especially in the summer!
- You absolutely must make this pumpkin dump cake when pumpkin season comes around!
Can you make this in a smaller pan (11 x 7; 9 inch square; etc)?