Dump Cakes: A Cathy Mitchell Recipe Book with an Unfortunate Name

What? My mom has been making dump cakes for years (just not all those different kinds, it’s a recipe has apples, raisins, walnuts, yellow cake mix etc, no soda though, yuck)! This is nothing new, and something you can make easily at home for less! Plus, I have a feeling the homemade from scratch soda-less stuff tastes much better. At least my mom’s does.

I’ve never heard of dump cakes before today. Are they a regional food item like po’boys or Minnesota hotdishes?

Mmm, clumps of unmixed cake batter drenched in soda, delicious.

With a good quality stand mixer, making truly from scratch goodies wouldn’t take that much longer. I hardly consider dumping a can of soda into cake mix “homemade”. Call me pretentious if you must.

The technical term is “drop batter”, the most common form being carrot cake.

Good Lord, I love this site. As someone who can’t sleep, it is nice to have people who articulate the thoughts I am too lazy to commit to paper.

I love the somewhat sinister black and white clips in informercials that depict the “old way” of performing a simple task as some monumental challenge. The people in it are always completely frazzled and inept, so much so that you wonder how they even get dressed in the morning. Note how the woman in this clip is stirring the batter with a spatula AND mixing it with an electric beater. If you’re that stupid, you shouldn’t be in the kitchen let alone making any food for human consumption.

We used to call this kind of thing a “wacky cake”. Much more appealing than “dump”.

Actually, the original dump cake recipe calls for cherry pie filling, pineapple chunks, butter, yellow cake mix, and walnuts – fixed in the same manner as the rest of the dump cakes in the book. And the yellow cake mix cooks all the way through unless you are an idiot, since these recipes are supposed to be idiot-proof.

If you think “Dump Cake” sounds bad, I guess you’ve never heard of “Diaper Cakes”.

This commercial makes me sick to my stomach. This would make Jack Lalanne turn over in his grave. These really are processed toxic waste recipes. This product must be funded by the government for population control.

Just another stupid person trying to make money off of something completely disgusting. She should be sued.

What the Sam Hello is wrong with you people? These fine dinning formulas have been around for longer than any of us. Known by different name like DIAPER CAKES. Must because she has the mass to put a collect up n togather for those that are to damn lazy to do themselves they want to lock her sue her burn her at the stake. Why not break out the bbq saucer and call it a family reunion. Geez eat your heart out Jacque, Giddion and the other nah Sayers. She must beat you to the bucks. Get over yourselves

I ordered the dump cake book from tv ad and understood that the dump dinner book came with it ,both for $10.00 + $7.99 s&h I got the dump cake book but not get the dump dinner book so they tell me know to pay $10.00 more for that book and a pan I dont want to pay anymore and I don’t want the pan.

I have seen this commercial in my opinion she is trying to make money off of something that been around for along time. there are so many dump cakes recipes on the web who need to pay for her cook book when they can find them for free. In my opinion a dump cake is a easy way to make a cobbler. The Guy Thomas who wrote about the Minnesota hotdishes lol I live in Minnesota; however, i still cannot grasped the Idea of a hotdish. The most famous Hotdish in Minnesota is the Potato Tot Hotdish, and it is gross, all they do is throw anything into a baking dish and call it a hotdish.

After reading the comments left for this book & Lady, I can only conclude that most are either jealous they didn’t come up with this idea or they are just plain outright ignorant morons.

Why do people even publish cookbooks anymore? Just Google “dump cake recipes” and you will get all the info you need for free. Sad but true for cookbook authors, great for home cooks.

It’s sad how Cathy Mitchell and Rachael Ray are using recipes that are not even new, but they seem to make it look that way. It’s pathetic most of the recipes in dump cakes and dinners are items I make myself I call it dinner or dessert improvised.

I love to cook but anything that will get me in and of the kitchen especially on week nights I am all for it. Ths way I can have it all done in 30 minutes and then set and relax with my family.
And these cook books do the trick,and so far I have’nt made 1 thing from any of them my family has not liked.

I dont buy cookbooks any more but the concept interested Me.
I made several cakes and a pork chop dinner do far. All were delicious and very well received.
My only problem is when asked for the recipe I get embarrassed because they are so east to make and with so few ingredients. I never made a cake where someone did not ask how I made it. I am totally in love with kathys Xpress redi set go machines too. The lady has something good going on.

Let’s just pray that she doesn’t take this a step further and release the dreaded sequel “Urinal Cakes”.

Muck, slop! Diet soda is sweetened with aspartame because big soda corporations want to stuff as much money as possible in their investors greedy pockets, and aspartame is CHEAP! Aspartame also loses it’s sweetness when heated, so it will not work in any bake requirement recipe! And how the hell is it “guilt free”? It is still full of sugar, and carbohydrates! Anyone knows that if you do not brown beef, you will end up with raw chunks throughout your finished dish, and what does cook will be like pink slime,yuk! Don’t make this old gypsy shyster rich,get off your azz, and either do it right, or go to a bakery. Anyone who thinks this mixture of overcooked,and undercooked slop with big sections of dry flour mix is ‘GOOD’, must have grown up on foodstamps,which will buy you carbs., pasta, candy, pop, bread, and ‘DUMPCAKES’ Yum!!!

So the genius of dump cakes is that they’re “economical,” if by economical you mean that you bypass the three seconds it takes to mix flour, sugar and baking powder, all which sell for 40 cents a pound, and use a boxed cake mix that costs $9 per lb.

Just make a damn cake…it takes less than ten minutes.

I would like to see this book, as well as DUMP DINNERS, published in large print or audio. This would be most helpful to those of us who have problems with regular print.

Dump cakes are nothing new and Cathy Mitchell didn’t create the name for these types of cakes. My mom made dump cakes and she learned from her mother. My mom grew up during the great depression. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe dump cakes were created during WWII when people had to ration food and rely on what they had to get by. With that being said, since you are so humored by the name, because it reminds you of taking a poop or a garbage dump, you can thank WWII households for giving you the opportunity to make an uneducated immature idiot out of yourself. And by the way, housewives should be offended by your comparison of calling them “slatternly” – I suppose you are calling housewives everywhere untidy or dirty or better yet, characteristic of sluts or prostitutes. In the future you might consider your wording….you’re not funny….and comparing the name of a food to trailer park cuisine is nothing more than a cut-down to those few who still remain from the greatest generation of men and women who by the way, gave you your freedom of slanderous speech!

Kathy Mitchell will be replacing Mike Huckabee on Fox News. Her new show, “Where The Sharks Take A Dump” will be a flag waving, boot-scootin’ good time!

That Cathy Mitchell is one HOT looking lady!
I’d let her do a dump on me.

This looks GROSS. This is for poor lazy people who don’t want to cook REAL food. It’s a SCAM. I would NEVER try this crap.

I’m convinced this woman either works as an Executive disciple of Satan OR IS A VALUED member of WHO and is effectively trying to keep the global populous in check

Roses are red, violets are blue….that maple syrup shit looks a lot like my poo.

For those who are wanting to order these books. Every local Dollar General, in my area, has them in the book section…if you want to call it that, since it consists of three rows, 6’x6′.

D is for Dump Truck

FOR THOSE OF YOU BAD-MOUTHING THESE BOOKS…TRY THEM BEFORE YOU COMPLAIN OR MAKE RUDE REMARKS….

WE BOUGHT THE DUMP DINNERS FOR 5 BUCKS AT GOOD WILL AND HAVE MADE MORE THAN 15 OF THE RECIPES FOR MONDAY DINNERS…EACH HAS BEEN EASY, CHEAP INGREDIENTS, AND VERY VERY TASTY…

WORTH THE MONEY AND THE BOOK

I make dump dinners every evenning in my little ol’ potty. And ooooooo-baby what an aroma! An entire roll of TP ain’t enough to daub all the drippins!!!

Ewwwwwww! This is third thing or product that I have tried of this womans. They all stink. She is a fraud. This dump cake I just tried couldnt even finish. I added some ice cream to improve it. I just wasted my ice cream. My mother bought a snack make, some veggie storage bags and now th i s stupid cookbook. I don’t even think she had this stuff tested. Garbage: The snack maker was 40 bucks and didn’t close right made cheaply. The food didn’t cook evenly and the grease came out. The bags didn’t keep the veggies fresh any longer either.I used to work in the food industry and worked in quality control. That dump was one of the worse things I have ever tasted. We all agreed in my family to throw it away. I can’t get the taste out of my mouth. I’m sorry I have never felt this way about anyone before. I feel all she cares about is making a buck. Test your stuff out lady before you put out on the market and if u really believe that they are great products then you shouldn’t be in the food business. I’m sorry.