Lemon Dump Cake is such a delicious and simple cake made with cake mix & pudding. This easy dessert recipe needs just 4 ingredients to make!
Dump cakes are as tasty as they are easy to make- and don’t forget that ice cream or whipped cream topping! For more tasty dump cake recipes, check out our Slow Cooker Cherry Dump Cake and Pumpkin Dump Cake.
Lemon Dump Cake
I shouldn’t have to explain why easy dessert recipes are some of the best. When you’ve got a real sweet tooth, it helps to have plenty of simple and quick desserts you can whip up. That, and it helps liven a party up: who doesn’t love a good dessert? When it comes to these easy desserts, dump cakes are usually some of my go-tos- just dump in your ingredients and let them bake. With spring and summer coming around, I felt like I had to make up some of this delicious Lemon Dump Cake.
We went out of our way to try and make this Lemon Dump Cake recipe as simple as can be: it only needs 4 ingredients and prepping it is so easy! With a dump cake recipe as simple as this, you’d think it only tasted okay but this Lemon Dump Cake turned out great. The pudding filling is creamy and sweet and the cake mix topping gets beautifully browned and rich thanks to the butter. If you need an easy summer party dessert that needs to taste great, we think this easy dump cake recipe is your best bet!
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If you loved all these flavors, you’ll want to make a batch of our Lemon Lush Bars next. These lush bars combine a sweet crust with a cream cheese filling and a lemon pudding topping. Lush bars are perfect for serving up at any sort of party, picnic, or get-together and the lemon flavors make them great for the summertime!
For a dead-simple pie recipe that everyone’s going to love, go with our Easy Lemon Pie. This simple no bake pie recipe makes for an amazing cool treat that you can have prepped and chilling in no time at all! Using pre-made and store-bought ingredients helps make this pie so easy- you’ll want to make it again and again.
Cookies are great too, so why not take a look at our Easy Lemon Cookies too? Cake Mix Cookies are one of my favorite dessert hacks and it’s the main reason why these cookies turn out so good every time! They bake so quick too: only needs less than 10 minutes in the oven- you’ll be snacking on these treats in no time.
Ingredients for Lemon Dump Cake Recipe
Lemon Pudding Mix – Besides lemon pudding, there’s plenty of other things you could use here. Consider making this dump cake recipe again with some of our homemade Lemon Curd! If you want to keep things really simple, try using something like a canned lemon pie filling instead.
Milk – If you’re not using lemon pudding, you actually don’t need this!
Lemon Cake Mix – We found this Duncan Hines Lemon Supreme cake mix and it worked great for this recipe. I’m sure almost any lemon cake mix will work for this Lemon Dump Cake.
How to make Lemon Dump Cake
Combine lemon pudding mix with milk according to manufacturer’s instructions. Spread pudding across the bottom of greased 9×13 baking dish.
Evenly top pudding layer with boxed cake mix. Cut butter into pats and spread evenly over cake mix.
Bake dump cake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes until top layer browns and cake is bubbling. Allow to cool for 10-15 minutes before serving.
After prepping your lemon pudding, we’re going to add it to the bottom of a heavily-greased 9×13 baking dish. Spread it out evenly.
Once that’s spread, start topping the pudding with the boxed cake mix. Top as evenly as you can: if you have any big mounds or clumps, try gently spreading them around with some utensil.
At this point, cut your butter into pats and spread them evenly across the top of the cake mix layer. You can cut the butter really thin and cover all the cake mix if you want: fewer bigger pats like we did here will work too!
All that’s left is to bake. Send the cake into an awaiting 350 degree oven and let it bake for about 35-40 minutes. That top cake layer should get nice and browned and everything should be nice and bubbly when it’s done.
We recommend letting this cake cool for about 10-15 minutes before you dig in- it’s pretty hot! Once it’s cooled to your liking, feel free to dish out a serving, top with some whipped cream or ice cream, and enjoy.
Once your dump cake has cooled, we recommend covering the leftovers tightly with plastic wrap. Kept in the fridge, expect your dump cake to keep for 5 days or up to a whole week!
Lemon Dump Cake
- 3 boxes Instant Lemon Pudding (3.4 oz boxes)
- 6 cup cold Milk
- 1 box Lemon Cake Mix 15.25-ounce box
- 1/2 cup Butter
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Grease 9x13" baking dish and set aside.
- Combine pudding mix and cold milk.
- Whisk until blended.
- Wait for 5 minutes, then spread the pudding over bottom of a prepared dish.
- Evenly sprinkle the cake mix over the pudding layer.
- Slice the butter into pats and spread over the top of the cake mix.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes, until the cake is browned and bubbling.
- Let cake set for 10 minutes before serving.