Vegan Chocolate Cherry Dump Cake

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Are you like us and don't live near a hip vegan bakery? Are your primary grocery stores in your small town Walmart and Piggly Wiggly? Do you just want an inexpensive and easy vegan dessert to celebrate a birthday, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Easter or a special guest over for dinner? This is the recipe for you. This chocolate cherry dump cake is inexpensive and tastes great even for non-vegans.

I've spent hours making new vegan cake recipes I've found on the internet for our birthdays, and this simple recipe is still our absolute favorite. It is hands down the winner. It is rich and decadent, and it costs about $4 dollars to make. I highly suggest spending another $4 for vanilla vegan ice cream. It's not healthy, but it is a nice indulgence for holidays and special occasions. The best part is that the dump cake takes 5 minutes to prepare. It's not really a cake. It's actually a cobbler with a chocolate brownie crust on top of cherries. YUM!

Here are some other vegan Chocolate cake mix options I found at Walmart.

Vegan Chocolate Cherry Dump Cake

1 box of chocolate cake mix (vegan)
2 cans of Cherry Pie filling (we use reduced sugar)
3/4 cup of Earth Balance vegan spread melted
Vanilla vegan ice cream* (optional topping but highly suggested)

*We love Soy Delicious Vanilla soy milk ice cream (3 grams of fat and 120 calories).

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Dump two cans of cherry pie filling into a 9 X 11 baking pan (not greased). Spread out evenly across the bottom of the pan. I use a glass Pyrex pan.

Sprinkle one entire box of cake mix on top of the cherry layer. Use a spoon to spread out evenly.

Drizzle the melted vegan butter on top of the chocolate cake mix layer.

Place in a preheated oven 350 degrees. Bake for one hour.

It's not fancy or photogenic.  It's just plain good. We shouldn't have to try that hard with dessert, right? I really hope you try it. Thanks for reading!