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!
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.
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.
Bake for 1 hour or until a knife poked in the middle comes out clean.
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?
Lemon Blueberry Dump Cake
Create a unique dump cake in your Dutch oven.
Ingredients
- Frozen Blueberries, approximately 24 oz
- Lemon Curd, 10-12 oz
- Yellow Cake Mix
- Can of Lemon-Lime Soda
Instructions
- Prepare the charcoal for the dutch oven.
- Line your dutch oven with a liner.
- Dump the blueberries into the bottom of the lined oven.
- Layer the lemon curd on top of the blueberries.
- 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 coals on the lid.
- Bake for 1 hour or until a knife poked in the middle comes out clean.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 246Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 358mgCarbohydrates: 49gFiber: 1gSugar: 32gProtein: 2g
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!
I am glad you liked it. So many of our recipes can be made at home. 🙂
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?:)
Yes, you can use a different size oven. Curd is different from pudding. Many stores have it near pie filling.
Do you have to replace coals anytime during the hour cook time?
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.
With the cake mix do you include the eggs water & oil? Or does the soda and curd have properties to replace them.
No eggs, water, & oil are needed. The soda does the trick!
What size Dutch oven are you using! Deep or shallow?
We use a regular 8 qt, which I would say is NOT shallow.
could u make this in the oven, too? if so, what temp & for how long? thanks!
Yes! 350° oven. Check around 35 minutes and go longer if needed.
@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?
I would recommend about 10 minutes less than the cake box instructs and testing to see if it needs longer.
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?
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!
What size od dutch oven did you use?
8 qt
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
Thank you, Miz Helen!
Just what I need for our camping trip later this year, thanks! I found you on Tip Junkie’s Tip me Tuesday.
Thanks for stopping by, Leo!