Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake

Enjoy this Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake made in the Dutch oven while camping. Get the recipe at the bottom of the post!

Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake in the Dutch Oven

A few weeks ago, we went to a camping rally that had a potluck. I wanted to make a new dessert in the dutch oven to share with everyone.

I love the combination of lemon and blueberry, so I made a dump cake. This Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake is one of the simplest Dutch Oven Desserts to make!

Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake Recipe

This cake recipe calls for four simple ingredients: frozen blueberries, lemon curd, a yellow cake mix, and a can of lemon-lime soda.

I just put the blueberries in the bottom of our cooler. They defrosted a little bit, but that is fine.

You can use fresh blueberries if you wish, but it will likely shorten the baking time.

Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake ingredients

It would also be easy to change from blueberries to a different variety of berry.

Prepare the charcoal for the Dutch oven.

Line your Dutch oven with a liner. See how easy it is to make your own Dutch oven liners.

Dump the blueberries (including any juice from the package) into the bottom of the lined pot.

Layer the lemon curd on top.

Mix the cake mix and soda in a separate bowl. Pour the cake batter over the lemon curd.

Place the lid on the Dutch oven. Create a circle of coals and place the pot on top.

Place coals on the lid.  We used about 16 coals on the bottom and 16 on the lid.

Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake directions

Bake for 1 hour or until a knife poked in the middle comes out clean.

Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake in the Dutch Oven

The cake turned out really well. Many people at the potluck complimented it on how good it was.

I love baking cakes with soda and a cake mix in the Dutch oven. The cake part turns out so high and fluffy.

Do you like lemon and blueberry, or would you prefer to use a different kind of berry?

2 photos of Blueberry Lemon Dump Cake
Yield: 12 servings

Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake

Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake

Create a unique dump cake in your Dutch oven.

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Additional Time 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • Frozen Blueberries, approximately 24 oz
  • Lemon Curd, 10-12 oz
  • Yellow Cake Mix
  • Can of Lemon-Lime Soda

Instructions

  1. Prepare the charcoal for the dutch oven.
  2. Line your dutch oven with a liner.
  3. Dump the blueberries into the bottom of the lined oven.
  4. Layer the lemon curd on top of the blueberries.
  5. Mix the cake mix and soda in a separate bowl.
  6. Pour the cake batter over the lemon curd.
  7. Place the lid on the dutch oven.
  8. Create a circle of coals and place the pot on top.
  9. Place coals on the lid. We used about 16 coals on the bottom and 16 coals on the lid.
  10. Bake for 1 hour or until a knife poked in the middle comes out clean.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

12

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 246Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 358mgCarbohydrates: 49gFiber: 1gSugar: 32gProtein: 2g

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22 Comments

  1. This was amazing and very simple. I love blueberries and lemon curd together; we aren’t camping right now and we had over 2 lbs. blueberries, so I put the Dutch oven in the oven; took well over an hour and I took the lid off for about the second half of the time. Will use a silicon mat for the liner next time as the baking paper disintegrated in the yummy blueberry mess at the bottom. Looking forward to doing it on a campfire!

  2. If I don’t have an 8 quart Dutch oven I only have a 6 would that still work ?:)
    Also for the blueberry lemon where do you get curd or is that the same pudding?:)

    1. It depends on the weather. Cooler or windy conditions sometimes produces cool spots. Make extra coals and rotate the pot and lid in opposite directions to help distribute the heat.

  3. With the cake mix do you include the eggs water & oil? Or does the soda and curd have properties to replace them.

    1. @Let’s Camp S’more, I plan to make this in my oven but do not have a Dutch Oven. Would it be about the same cooking time without a lid on?

  4. Your recipe calls for lemon curd, but doesn’t indicate the quantity/container size. the picture shows a jar of lemon fruit filling; 23 oz., I think. Are these items interchangeable? Is 23 oz the correct quantity?

    1. Sorry about that, BC. We’ve updated the recipe. I used half a jar, so about 10-12 oz of lemon curd. We used about 24 oz of blueberries. Adjust the bake time if you use more or less of both. Enjoy!

  5. What a great Dump Cake recipe for the camp out! Thanks so much for sharing your post with us at Full Plate Thursday. Have a great week and come back soon!
    Miz Helen

  6. Just what I need for our camping trip later this year, thanks! I found you on Tip Junkie’s Tip me Tuesday.

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