Peach Dump Cake

[dirtsailor2003]

Digging way back into the Boy Scout days I decided that I wanted to make dump cake in the dutch oven.

I used my 10" D.O., this also works in a 12". The 10" just gives you a bigger top.

1 box cake mix (pick your favorite) I used yellow for this batch. White works great for pineapple. Chocolate works great with cherry, etc.

1 can of soda usually 7up or sprite. For this I used lime flavored Bubly. Again mix it up a bit, Dr pepper goes good with the Chocolate cherry.

2 cans of peaches drained. You can mix it up use pie filling, fresh berries, pineapple, cocktail fruit etc. Also if you like more fruit add another can.

Optinoal (i did not use it this time) 1 stick of unsalted butter cut up into 1/2 tablespoon pieces

I like to use a foil liner in my DO. It makes it easier to store leftovers as you can just remove the liner, cover it and put it in the fridge or cooler. Then your DO is clean and free to use again. It also allows you to pre-heat (which I didn't do this cook) the DO which will reduce the cook time.

Preheat oven or dutch oven to 350° I cooked this in the oven. I wish I had preheated the DO while preheating the oven. The cake took about 20 minutes more than normal to cook :rolleyes:

If using canned fruit, drain.

Place fruit in bottom of liner or DO.

Sprinkle cake mix over fruit. Disclaimer, I did mix the cake with the soda in a separate bowl. This step isn't required, but I will do it when at home. At camp, everything is dumped in.

Add butter if using

Pour soda over cake mix. Cover with lid and bake until cake is set. Normally around 40-50 minutes if your DO is preheated. Mine was not so it took forever!

Its really tasty, warm right out the DO. I have to admit though that I really like it left over and cold right out of the fridge or cooler.

 

[smokerjim]

looks tasty from here, got to say I don't remember eating stuff like that in the boy scouts, we used to get a stick for our hotdogs and marshmallows. guess I was in the wrong troop.

 

[dirtsailor2003]

looks tasty from here, got to say I don't remember eating stuff like that in the boy scouts, we used to get a stick for our hotdogs and marshmallows. guess I was in the wrong troop.

We did all kinds of cooking in Dutch ovens. All kinds of grilling meat. We ate really good. With that said we did eat hotdogs and marsh mellows.

On long hikes it was almost always freeze dried foods, jerky, gorp, cans of tuna, energy bars, etc.

 

[SmokinVOLfan]

Great looking cake DS! Looks like something fairly easy to make too. My kids would probably love doing this outside. Thanks for sharing!

 

[dirtsailor2003]

Great looking cake DS! Looks like something fairly easy to make too. My kids would probably love doing this outside. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you. Doesn't get any easier. dump everything in and let er cook. My son likes making it when we go camping.

 

[gmc2003]

Chocolate works great with cherry, etc.

Not much of a dessert eater, but that combo sounds really good.

Point for sure
Chris

 

[fished]

Good looking dump cake. I haven't made that in awhile either. I use butter when I make it.
Thanks Ed

 

[chef jimmyj]

That sounds great. My Troop Hated Hikes! We were Fishermen. Fish fry twice a week...JJ

 

[dirtsailor2003]

That sounds great. My Troop Hated Hikes! We were Fishermen. Fish fry twice a week...JJ

We’d get dropped off once a month with our food and gear, compass and a map and a heres where we’ll pick you up on Sunday! These trips were prep for our annual 50 mile hike. Which was a chunk of the Pacific Crest Trail. Which usually was more than 50. We did all of the PCT in Oregon, some in Washington, and a portion in California.

Only DO cooking we did was when we’d have a base camp and do day hikes in and out. lots of those involved spelunking. We have some great lava tube caves to explore here.

We did take DO’s snow camping too. Only if we weren’t skiing into camp though. I have a few great story about snow camp. I’ll have to save that for another post. Sometimes even Boy Scouts forget to “be prepared”.

 

[jcam222]

That looks delcious. I remember doing these camping when I was a kid.