Easy Lemon Dump Cake with Cream Cheese

Here’s a little cake mix magic for you lemon-lovers! This Easy Lemon Dump Cake with Cream Cheese is an easy lemon dessert recipe has only four simple ingredients and I think you’re going to love it! The tangy lemon flavor comes through in both the lemon cake mix and the lemon pie filling.

Once you’ve tried this easy dump cake recipe, you’ll want to try my pineapple dump cake, this 3-ingredient cherry dump cake and my viral pumpkin dump cake in the fall!

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This is one of those easy dessert recipes that is nice to have ready when you’re expecting company and short on time to make anything from scratch. This lemon dump cake recipe is prepared in the baking dish and will require little cleanup!

Dump cake has a cake-like topping, similar to a cobbler crust, only softer.

You literally dump everything into the baking dish – hence, ‘dump cake’. If you don’t have ingredients on hand, everything is simple and readily available at the grocery store.

When you’re ready to try a different flavor combination, my peach dump cake is just as quick and easy and calls for canned peaches. It’s the perfect treat!

Ingredients

• Lemon pie filling – depending what is available in your area, you can purchase canned lemon filling or the dry powder to make lemon pie filling.
• Lemon cake mix – One box of lemon cake mix. You can also use a few other flavors of boxed cake mix such as yellow cake mix or vanilla cake mix.
• Cream cheese – one block of cream cheese is all that you’ll need for this recipe. The combination of lemons and cream cheese is delicious!
• Butter – use cold butter as it will be easier to slice into squares.

Other Add-ins

• lemon zest – looking for even more zing from lemon flavor? Stir in the zest from one lemon into the cake mix before sprinkling it on top of the lemon pie filling for more intense lemon flavor.
• white chocolate chips– sprinkle the top of the cake mix with one cup of white chocolate chips.

How to make Lemon Dump Cake

You can find the full list of ingredients, amounts and instructions on the recipe card at the bottom of this page.

Start by spraying a 13×9-inch baking dish with cooking spray.

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Step 1 – Spread lemon pie filling in the bottom of prepared 13-inch baking dish, smoothing with a spoon to spread evenly.

Step 2 – Slice block of cream cheese into 16 slices and carefully place on top of the pie filling.

Step 3 – Sprinkle the cake mix over top. Try and sprinkle it as evenly as possible.

Step 4 – Slice butter into thin pats of butter and place evenly over top of the cake mix. That’s it! How easy is that?!

Step 5 – Bake in 350°F oven for 45 minutes, or until bubbly and top is light golden brown.

As the cake is cooking and the butter melts, there may be a few dry cake mix spots from the butter not spreading out. You can simple take a pastry brush and move it over to a wet area about 5 minutes before it’s done baking.

Allow the dessert to cool slightly before serving with whipped cream or cool whip or a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

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