Reviewed: Jun. 6, 2007

I haven't baked in years but I decided to start with this - and everyone loved it! Instead of cake mix, I used the other reviewers cake-from-scratch.. should have doubled the amount though as there wasn't enough mix to cover all the fruits (I used canned apricots & pineapples that came in syrup). - 1/4 cup sugar - 1 cup flour - 1 tsp baking powder - 1/4 tsp salt - 1 cup of syrup from the pineapples Thanks a bunch!

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Kristy

Reviewed: May 16, 2007

wow - so good. I wish I had known about this cake years ago. It's really more of a fruit compote kind of thing, or a fruit crumble, like apple crisp, than a cake (fine with me!) It's ridiculously easy to make. I buttered the bottom of the pan, and added that little big of teensily chopped walnuts in the last 10 mins of baking. I was in heaven. This will be the new thing to bring to gatherings. My 22 month old daughter is eating it now making all sorts of groaning noises and saying "delicious" over and over again. Take it from the expert.

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Christine R.

Home Town: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Reviewed: Mar. 24, 2007

I really love this recipe, excepted I used blueberry pie filling and crushed pineapple instead of cherry. Everybody I've served it to just loved it.

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raecre

Reviewed: Mar. 21, 2007

A friend introduced me to this sinfully delicious treat and so when I was browsing on Allrecipes.com and saw this recipe I new I had to try it. It was fabulous! That's all I have to say about it!

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Christine W.

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Ballwin, Missouri, USA

Living In: Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA

Reviewed: Mar. 1, 2007

Made this 3 times to get it just right! The first time, I used apple pie filling, but it was a bit sweet for my taste. Any type of canned fruit will do - I tried fruit cocktail and canned peaches (anything in fruit juice rather than syrup). You can try strawberries in syrup if you like a sweeter dessert. I finally decided to make the cake mix from scratch (3/4 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp salt) (this is actually the dry ingredients of 1/2 of David's yellow cake from this website). I drizzled some of the pineapple juice from the canned pineapples into the mixture and baked according to the recipe. (I omitted the butter and used a spray olive oil to save fat!) Tastes fantastic with chopped walnuts on top and served with vanilla ice cream! A nice, healthy dessert!

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AURORA625

Reviewed: Nov. 12, 2006

This is the best cake, it takes no time to make and tastes wonderful!

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mclink

Cooking Level: Beginning

Living In: Rancho Cordova, California, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 29, 2006

Easy and yummy. Great when served warm with vanilla ice cream.

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Janevieve

Reviewed: Jul. 26, 2006

One cookie and cake disaster after another, I had just about given up! Then I saw the title for this recipe "Super-Easy-To-Make" and it was. I tweaked the original recipe according to some of the other readers only using 1/2 the cake mix and slightly more than 1/2 the filling, it turned out wonderful. RA! RA! Also, i used the remaining cake mix to experiment using a muffin pan. Thanks for the recipe as well as the alterations.

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alykar

Cooking Level: Beginning

Living In: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Reviewed: Apr. 23, 2006

This is the perfect recipe for a dump cake. But you can use any kind of fruit and try topping the cake with chopped pecans or walnut. It is really good that way.

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chryssie

Reviewed: Apr. 9, 2006

I followed the recipe to the tee and it never set up. It was quite liquidy when it came out of the oven, so I scooped it over some vanilla ice cream and received RAVE reviews! The flavor was amazing! I think next time I'll use less fruit, or maybe different fruit, and see where that gets me.

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