Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake is the recipe that Teresa makes every time she wants to create the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely crowd-pleasing dessert that combines the most creamy and the most deeply tangy richness of a baked cheesecake layer with the most naturally sweet and the most vibrantly fresh macerated strawberries and the most beautifully golden and the most tenderly crumbed yellow cake mix batter .
All in the most brilliantly layered single baking dish that requires absolutely no mixer for the cake batter, no stand mixer, no complicated technique, and only fifteen minutes of preparation before the most extraordinary baked result emerges after forty-five minutes in the oven. She macerates the fresh strawberries with sugar to release the most gorgeous juice, beats the cream cheese with sugar and vanilla to the most smooth filling, combines the most simple yellow cake batter, layers everything in the most beautiful sequence, and bakes until the most gloriously golden and the most completely irresistible result.
Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake is the most easy and deeply extraordinary layered dessert made with macerated fresh strawberries cream cheese sugar vanilla yellow cake mix melted butter milk and salt baked at 350°F for 45 to 50 minutes until golden dusted with powdered sugar and served with vanilla ice cream. Come follow us on Pinterest where we share beautiful cake recipes and easy celebration favorites from our kitchen every single week.
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Why You Will Love This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake Recipe
This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake recipe is the most completely extraordinary and the most genuinely brilliant layered dessert that delivers the most beautifully creamy cheesecake experience and the most naturally vibrant fresh strawberry flavor and the most perfectly golden cake texture all in the most effortlessly prepared single-dish baked dessert that requires no water bath, no springform pan, no complicated cheesecake technique, and produces the most completely extraordinary result from the simplest possible preparation.
The ten-minute macerating of the fresh strawberries with sugar before layering is the most critical preparation step for the most vibrantly flavored and the most beautifully juicy strawberry layer. Sugar draws out the most natural strawberry juices and concentrates the most bright fruit sweetness for a far more flavorful and more beautifully integrated strawberry layer than simply scattering unsweetened berries through the batter. Our Fresh Strawberry Cake makes a beautifully equally vibrant and equally strawberry-forward companion for a complete and wonderful fresh strawberry dessert collection.
Ingredients Needed for This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake Recipe
- 2 cups Fresh Strawberries, sliced (or frozen strawberries)
- 1 package (8 oz) Cream Cheese, softened to room temperature
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar (¼ cup for strawberries, ¾ cup for cream cheese)
- 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1 box Yellow Cake Mix
- ½ cup Unsalted Butter, melted
- 1 cup Whole Milk
- ½ tsp Salt
- Powdered Sugar for dusting (optional)
How to Make This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake Recipe
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Ensure your cream cheese has been softened to room temperature for the most smooth and the most lump-free filling.
In a medium bowl, combine the sliced strawberries with a quarter cup of granulated sugar. Allow to macerate for approximately 10 minutes, releasing the most beautifully natural juices that enhance the fruit flavor throughout the entire finished cake, cara mia.
In a separate bowl, beat the room-temperature softened cream cheese with the remaining three-quarter cup of granulated sugar and vanilla extract until the most completely smooth and the most creamy cheesecake-style mixture forms.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the yellow cake mix, melted butter, milk, and salt. Stir until just combined — a few lumps remaining are perfectly correct. Do not overmix.
Grease a 9 by 13-inch baking dish. Pour half the cake batter most evenly into the bottom. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the batter layer. Spoon the macerated strawberries and all their accumulated juice most evenly over the cream cheese layer. Pour the remaining cake batter over the strawberry layer, spreading to cover as completely as possible.
Bake for 45 to 50 minutes until the top is the most beautifully golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 to 15 minutes. Dust with powdered sugar before serving for the most beautifully finished and the most professionally presented result.
How to Serve This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake Recipe
Serve warm from the oven with a most generous scoop of vanilla ice cream or a generous dollop of freshly whipped cream alongside each individual square for the most completely extraordinary and the most deeply satisfying warm-and-cold dessert combination. The most beautifully warm strawberry cheesecake dump cake against cold vanilla ice cream creates the most completely indulgent serving experience.
Garnish with a few fresh whole strawberries and a sprinkle of additional powdered sugar for the most completely beautiful and the most naturally vibrant individual dessert presentation. Our Strawberry Earthquake Cake makes a beautifully equally vibrant and equally crowd-pleasing strawberry cake companion for a complete and wonderful fresh strawberry cake collection.
How to Store This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake Recipe
Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 3 to 4 days. Reheat individual portions in the microwave for 20 to 30 seconds or in the oven at 350°F until warmed through. Freeze tightly wrapped for up to 2 months.
Tips to Make This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake Recipe
Soften the cream cheese to full room temperature — at least one hour on the counter — before beating. Cold cream cheese cannot be beaten to the most smooth and the most lump-free cheesecake filling and produces visible lumps that remain throughout baking. Room-temperature cream cheese beats to the most silky and the most uniformly smooth result instantly.
Allow the strawberries to macerate with the sugar for the full ten minutes before layering. This resting period draws out the most beautiful natural strawberry juice that makes the strawberry layer the most vibrantly flavored and the most deeply integrated throughout the finished bake.
Helpful Notes for This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake Recipe
Grease the baking dish most thoroughly before layering to prevent any sticking of the most generously buttered cake layers to the sides and bottom. The cream cheese layer can adhere to an ungreased pan and cause the most frustrating tearing when serving individual squares.
This recipe works beautifully with other fruit — fresh blueberries, diced peaches, raspberries, or sliced nectarines all substitute directly for the strawberries in the same quantity. Macerate each fruit the same way with the same quarter cup of sugar for the most vibrantly flavored individual fruit variation.
Variation of This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake Recipe
Maria made a version using a strawberry cake mix in place of yellow cake mix for the most completely extraordinary and the most vibrant double-strawberry cheesecake dump cake. Teresa tried adding a quarter cup of white chocolate chips to the cream cheese filling for the most deeply extraordinary white chocolate strawberry cheesecake dump cake.
For a lemon blueberry dump cake version, substitute the fresh strawberries with two cups of blueberries macerated with the same sugar and use a lemon cake mix in place of yellow for the most completely vibrant and the most beautifully bright lemon blueberry cheesecake dump cake. Our Fresh Strawberry Cake makes a beautifully equally strawberry-vibrant and equally crowd-pleasing companion for a complete and wonderful strawberry celebration collection.
FAQs About This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake Recipe
Can I use frozen strawberries?
Yes. Frozen strawberries substitute directly for fresh in the same quantity. Allow frozen strawberries to thaw partially and macerate with the sugar the same way as fresh. Thoroughly drained thawed frozen strawberries produce results very close to fresh. If the frozen berries are very watery after thawing, drain some excess liquid before macerating to prevent the finished cake from being too wet.
Can I prepare this cake ahead of time?
Yes. The completely baked and cooled cake can be refrigerated overnight and served the following day. Reheat individual portions before serving for the most warm and the most properly fresh-tasting result. Alternatively, assemble the layered unbaked cake up to 12 hours in advance, refrigerate covered, and bake directly from the refrigerator adding 5 to 10 additional minutes to the baking time.
Why is my top layer pale rather than golden?
The top layer needs consistent oven heat at 350°F for the full 45 to 50 minutes to achieve the most beautifully golden brown color. Pale tops are almost always caused by underbaking or an oven that runs slightly cool. If the top is not golden by the 45-minute mark but the center toothpick is clean, increase the oven temperature to 375°F for the final 5 minutes to achieve the most beautiful golden finish.
Conclusion
This Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake is the most completely extraordinary and the most deeply indulgent layered dessert that makes every gathering feel genuinely and completely special through the most vibrantly macerated fresh strawberries and the most silky cream cheese layer and the most beautifully golden yellow cake batter in every single warm and completely irresistible strawberry cheesecake dump cake square. We hope it brings the same deeply joyful strawberry cheesecake moment and the same completely delighted gathering to your kitchen that it has always brought to ours. Make it, share it, and come back to tell us all about it. With all our love, Maria, Lucia, and Teresa.
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Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake The Most Easy Cream Cheese Layered Fresh Strawberry Yellow Cake Mix Dessert You Will Bake
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 12 servings 1x
- Diet: Vegetarian
Description
The most easy layered Strawberry Cheesecake Dump Cake made by preheating oven to 350°F macerating 2 cups sliced strawberries with 1/4 cup sugar 10 minutes beating 8 oz room temperature cream cheese with 3/4 cup sugar and 1 tsp vanilla until smooth combining yellow cake mix 1/2 cup melted butter 1 cup milk and 1/2 tsp salt just until combined greasing 9×13-inch dish pouring half batter evenly spreading cream cheese mixture over spooning strawberries and juice over cream cheese pouring remaining batter to cover and baking 45 to 50 minutes until golden brown toothpick clean cooling 10 to 15 minutes and dusting with powdered sugar before serving with vanilla ice cream. A completely extraordinary strawberry cheesecake dump cake recipe.
Ingredients
2 cups Fresh Strawberries sliced or frozen
1 package 8 oz Cream Cheese softened to room temperature
1/4 cup Granulated Sugar for strawberries
3/4 cup Granulated Sugar for cream cheese
1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
1 box Yellow Cake Mix
1/2 cup Unsalted Butter melted
1 cup Whole Milk
1/2 tsp Salt
Powdered Sugar for dusting optional
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F 175°C. Ensure cream cheese room temperature.
2. Combine sliced strawberries with 1/4 cup sugar. Macerate 10 minutes.
3. Beat room temperature cream cheese with 3/4 cup sugar and vanilla until completely smooth.
4. Combine cake mix, melted butter, milk, and salt. Stir just until combined. Do not overmix.
5. Grease 9×13-inch baking dish.
6. Pour half batter evenly into bottom.
7. Spread cream cheese mixture over batter.
8. Spoon macerated strawberries and all juices over cream cheese.
9. Pour remaining batter over strawberries to cover.
10. Bake 45 to 50 minutes until top golden brown and toothpick clean.
11. Cool 10 to 15 minutes.
12. Dust with powdered sugar. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Category: Dessert, Cake, Easy
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 square
- Calories: 320
- Sugar: 20g
- Sodium: 280mg
- Fat: 15g
- Saturated Fat: 8g
- Unsaturated Fat: 6g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 45g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 45mg
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