Easy Fresh Peach Dump Cake

5 from 31 votes

Easy Fresh Peach Dump Cake

A Peach Dump Cake with Fresh Peaches is the perfect dessert to satisfy sweet cravings. This beginner-friendly dump cake is easy and quick to create. Bonus – you can easily adjust the sweetness of this recipe by using slightly more or less brown sugar. Serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for a summery dessert.

Prep Time10

Cook Time40

Total Time50

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: people

Author: Brianna May

Equipment

Ingredients

8 cups fresh yellow peaches, sliced*
1/3 cup (67 g) brown sugar*
1 Tablespoon EACH cornstarch & vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8-1/4 teaspoon ground ginger, optional
1 15.25-ounce box yellow cake mix
12 Tablesoons, (170 g) salted butter
vanilla ice cream, for serving

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Generously grease a 9 x 13 inch baking dish with spray oil or butter. Dump in the peaches, brown sugar, cornstarch, vanilla, cinnamon, and ginger. Toss around until combined.
8 cups fresh yellow peaches, sliced*, 1/3 cup (67 g) brown sugar*, 1 Tablespoon EACH cornstarch & vanilla extract, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/8-1/4 teaspoon ground ginger, optional
Pour the cake mix evenly across the top of the peaches. (I like to pull a few peaches on top of the cake mix so you can see them on top.) Spoon the melted butter on top of the cake mix, so it is mostly covered.
1 15.25-ounce box yellow cake mix, 12 Tablesoons, (170 g) salted butter
Bake for 40-45 minutes or until golden.
Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
vanilla ice cream, for serving

Notes

Peaches: Since peaches have thinner skin, you can cook them with or without their skins. Depending on how large they are, you'll need about 7-9 peaches for this recipe. If you're in a time crunch, you can use frozen fruit instead to create a peach dump cake with frozen peaches.
Brown Sugar: If you have peaches that are not very sweet or enjoy recipes on the sweeter side, you can increase the brown sugar from 1/3 to ½ cup.
Use salted butter. The salt in salted butter brings out the flavors of the peaches and the other ingredients. It also helps balance the sweetness of the cake.
Serve with ice cream. A scoop of cold vanilla (or salted caramel) ice cream perfectly complements a warm slice of peach dump cake with fresh peaches. If you want to take it a step further with this old-fashioned peach cake recipe, add a dollop of whipped cream or Cool Whip.
Melt the butter – Melted butter helps the topping for the peach cobbler dump cake cook more quickly than if you're incorporating cold butter pieces.
Break up cake mix chunks – Ensure the yellow or white cake mix has no chunks before layering it on the peaches. If there are chunks, break them up in a bowl first.

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