Reviewed: May 4, 2011

Super Easy! Super Quick! Super Frugal! Super Good!

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SalinasFamily

Reviewed: Mar. 1, 2011

Excellent! Next time, I'm going to try cherry filling with chocolate cake! Or maybe . . . WoW! Lots of possibilities.

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Trish

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Reviewed: Feb. 25, 2011

Absolutely fabulous, and SO EASY! It's perfect for last minute dinner plans, and since there's nothing to mess up measurement wise, I even let my son help out! One thing I have modified- I mix the cake batter (I find Duncan Hines yellow batter best) and the butter ( I use a FAT half cup) together in a bowl with a large fork first, then sprinkle on top of the apples. It just suits our tastes better, and ensures no hard or burned topping spots.

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Lindsay

Reviewed: Nov. 17, 2010

I used 1/2 the cake mix and 1/2 cup butter. Delicious!!

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fawnbeagley

Cooking Level: Beginning

Home Town: Eagle, Idaho, USA

Living In: Nampa, Idaho, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 20, 2010

This was GREAT. I made my own "pie filling" with sliced organic Granny Smith apples that I cooked slightly in vanilla sugar water and thickened with a cornstarch slurry, then folded in almost two teaspoons of homemade apple pie spice. (I don't keep pie filling on hand.) I also used a low-sugar yellow cake mix. This was great at cleaning out one of the many boxed cake mixes in my pantry and made a semi-homemade dessert for my boys after a long, hard day. NOTE: I strongly suggest you make your own "filling" if you can. I used 6 medium sized apples and for the "juice", I used 1/4 cup water, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup brown sugar and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. If you cut the butter into thin slices and layer over the dry cake mix, it turns out much better.

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Sarah Jo

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Seattle, Washington, USA

Living In: Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, USA

Reviewed: Sep. 21, 2010

This was really delicious. I like sweets so it wasn't too sweet for me/us. After reading the complaints about the mixture, I put the cake mix in a separate bowl and poured the melted butter into it, added some cinnamon, almond flavoring and mixed it until it was like a crumb topping. Super easy and delicious.

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Stacy

Reviewed: Sep. 8, 2010

Well, I couldn't find the recipe I usually use, so looked for one to make Hubby something with apples. He was suggesting one that used the cake mix topping. I found this one and tried it right to the recipe, except I added a little oatmeal to the topping for extra flavor. I was not really happy with it, and won't make this one again. It was so sweet it made the roof of my mouth itch! Cut the brown sugar IN HALF and it might be a lot better. I used granny smiths too, so it wasn't sweet apples/sweet sugar situation. The topping got too hard as well. I attributed some of that to my adding some oatmeal, but still... it wasn't what I was after at all, and way way too sweet as written.

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KittyFanatic

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Bethalto, Illinois, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 9, 2010

So easy and good!

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Chele402

Reviewed: Jul. 29, 2010

Greasy where the butter melted in, dry and gritty where the cake mix didn't get enough butter. Cloying and rich. I checked it at 28 mins, saw that it was not going to turn out and just stirred it all up. At least it was edible. Not doing it again - sticking to crumbles and bettys.

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TORAKONEKO

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jul. 5, 2010

Wowza! This is the easiest desert EVER. Its so good! My kids are gobbling it up as I type. About 1/2 way through the baking time, I pulled it out, and sprinkled water on the dry parts. Worked wonderfully.

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