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Cast Iron Skillet Dump Cakes

What does it take to bake a great cake? If it’s a dump cake, just one skillet, five simple steps, and less than an hour!



If you love cakes but get overwhelmed by the many steps involved in making them, then these seventy-five dump cake recipes are for you! All you need to do is preheat the oven; prepare a butter/sugar mixture in the bottom of your cast iron skillet; add a few goodies to a cake mix; “dump” it on top; and bake. In less than an hour, you simply invert the skillet and enjoy a delicious dessert—Chocolate Mint Cake, Killer Carrot Cake, Lemon Honey Cake, and Strawberry Deluxe Cake—that will please the family or impress your guests.

Dominique DeVito

Dominique DeVito was a magazine and book editor and publisher. She has written more than a dozen books including The Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook, Paleo Slow Cooking, Christmas Slow Cooking, Paleo Italian Slow Cooking, and the upcoming Cast Iron Skillet Baking Cookbook. She also edited Country Living Kitchens(Hearst). Dominique was on Farmhouse Rules (Food Network), participating in a wine tasting, and her work has been featured in Martha Stewart Living,USA Today, Rural Intelligence, and many other newspapers and magazines nationally. She writes for Hudson Valley Wine Magazine, Main Street Magazine, and a regular wine column for The Register Star newspaper. She is co-owner of the highly acclaimed Hudson-Chatham Winery, where she hosts several farm-to-table dinners each year.