Aunt B's GFCF Apple Dump Cake

Every so often my boss Linda and I get to talking about cooking or baking and one day she was telling me about something her mother use to make when she was younger.  It's was simply called a Dump Cake.  What her mother would do is take 1 can of Pineapple (undrained) mixed with 1 can of cherry pie filling putting this in the bottom of a 9x13 glass baking dish, then a layer of 1 box cake mix and last a layer of butter on top.  Basically you're just dumping one thing on top of another and then she'd bake it.  I asked Linda "What does it look like when it's done?" and she found a recipe online that was as close to what her mother made for me to see.  Now, I am a fan of cobblers and this looked like a cobbler to me, so I thought lets give it try with a GF cake mix.

To make it gluten free and casein free I used Betty Crocker's GF Yellow Cake Mix, 2 sticks of Earth Balance Vegan Buttery Sticks, and today I used 2 cans of Apple Pie Filling.  I have done the Cherry & Pineapple.  I do believe that one is my favorite, but I'd just made that for the 4th of July.

Bake for 60 minutes

The only other thing I did different than what Linda does when she makes it is I dotted the Earth Balance across the top layer.  Linda melts her's and pours it over the top.  If you melt it first make sure you cut back on the baking time.  The last time I did it that way I think it took about 30 to 35 minutes. With the dots of Earth Balance shown above I baked it for 60 minutes.  Both ways seem to work out just fine.  Today I wanted to try the dots of Earth Balance only because I saw a few regular dump cakes (made with wheat base flour mix) on the internet made this way.  I just wanted to see if there was a difference when it's was all said and done.

As you can see the Earth Balance melts just the same either way

Let it bake to a golden brown on top

This is such a simple and easy thing to make when you don't have the time to fuss.  As I said earlier I threw one of these together the morning of the 4th of July with no fuss.  Oh and don't forget the scoop of ice cream on the side or in my son's case a scoop of Almond Dream Ice Cream.  Hey, it's not summer without ice cream of some kind now is it?