Easy Three Ingredient Cake or Cobbler Recipes

Did you know you can easily make a custom cake using a standard cake mix and just two additional ingredients?  You simply use any flavor of cake mix with any desired fruit combination to create your own special dish.  The basic recipes for cake or cobbler are below, along with some  flavor ideas and tips for changing it up.

3-Ingredient Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

1 box of cake mix
1 (21 oz.) can of fruit pie filling
3 eggs

Steps:

1. Mix all ingredients together.
2. Pour into greased 9x13 pan.
3. Bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes.  Remove from oven when toothpick comes out clean.

Tips:

• If you want chunks of fruit in the cake, mix by hand.  Use a beater if you want a more traditional cake.
• Make it seem like a fancy dessert by serve each slice with cool whip on top or drizzled with a flavored ice cream syrup.
• You can also make this as a layer cake in two 8-inch pans a put  whipped cream or frosting on top and between the layers.    
• You may also put it into a bundt pan or make two-dozen cupcakes if preferred .  For cupcakes bake for 25-20 minutes.  Use a sifter to sprinkle powdered sugar on top of cundt or cupcakes after removing from pan.

Blend Ideas:

Spice cake with apple pie filling
Chocolate cake with cherry pie filling
Lemon cake with blueberry pie filling
Carrot cake with pineapple pie filling
Strawberry cake with strawberry pie filling

3-Ingredient Cobbler Recipe (aka dump cake)

Ingredients:

1 box of yellow (or white) cake mix
2 (15 oz) cans of fruit in syrup (or pie filling)
1/2 cup butter, melted

Steps:

1. Pour canned fruit in bottom of greased 9x13 pan.  Do not drain of syrup or juice.
2. Sprinkle cake mix evenly over fruit.
3. Drizzle melted butter over top of cake mix.
4. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes or until golden brown on top.

Tips:

• You can use fruit in syrup, pie filling, or thawed frozen fruit to get the flavor you desire.  You may want to test low sugar and no sugar added options too.
• Serve hot topped with ice cream.  Or allow to cool and serve with whipped cream on top.
• Similar recipes called "dump cake" substitute 12 oz. can lemon-lime soda instead of the butter.  If you want to try that you will get more of a cake topper than cobbler crust.  Other "dump cake" recipes use 1 can of cola instead of lemon-lime and a chocolate cake mix or a fruit-flavored cake mix.   If using soda or cola, reduce bake time to 30-35 minutes.

Fruit Ideas:

Peach
Apple
Blueberry
Cherry
Blackberry
Pear
Mixed berries
2 different kinds of fruit


BONUS!

• 2-Ingredient Lemon Bars Recipe made with angel food cake mix and 21-oz can lemon pie filling or make it lime pie filling instead!
• See also 2 Recipes for Quick and Easy Peach or Other Fruit Cobblers and 4-ingredient Cherry Crumb Cake which is more for a crumble topped cobbler.