Chocolate Raspberry Cake Dutch Oven

This Chocolate raspberry cake is a delicious dessert that is made in a dutch oven. You can cook it in the oven, in a smoker, or with charcoal briquettes. It’s an easy dessert to make when camping or in your backyard during the summertime. It serves 12-15 people and is great with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.The raspberry filling inside helps complement the rich chocolate cake so beautifully. Plus clean up is much easier when lining the dutch oven with foil. Get ready to impress your family and friends with this easy-to-make chocolate raspberry cake.

Chocolate Raspberry Cake Ingredients

This dump-and-go chocolate raspberry cake is only four ingredients and doesn’t take long to get set up and ready to enjoy! It is simple to layer the ingredients and let the dutch oven do all the work. Grab your dutch oven and let’s get started!

Butter – Melt your butter ahead of time or let it melt in the dutch oven prior to adding the rest of the ingredients. This will be similar to using cooking spray to help avoid the cake to stick to the walls of the dutch oven. Raspberry pie filling – This is a thick sauce that has raspberries stored inside the can. If you are not a fan of full raspberries you can use raspberry preserves or raspberry jam instead which are mainly smashed or mushed raspberries instead of whole raspberries. Raspberries – Fresh or frozen raspberries work great for the next layer. Devil’s food cake mix – Take the dry ingredients from the cake mix package and dump them overtop the other ingredients. This will give the cake its chocolate flavor.

How to Make Chocolate Raspberry Cake

This dutch oven dessert is filled with cake layers that melt together creating a delicious and warm dessert. Chocolate and raspberry bring out the perfect combination! This is going to be at the top of your cake recipes.

Top your Cake!

Once the cake has cooled to room temperature you can create a basic dessert to an over-the-top delicious dessert with all your favorite toppings. You can’t remove the cake from the dutch oven nicely but adding it over top of the cake works best!

Classic – A scoop of vanilla ice cream is all you need for the perfect combination! Birthday – Whipped cream, sprinkles, and a candle or two to celebrate the big day. Sauce – Enjoy a chocolate fudge sauce or a caramel sauce drizzled over the top of the chocolate and raspberry cake. Chocolatey – Add extra chocolate with a thin layer of frosting like this chocolate frosting, a layer of chocolate buttercream, or chocolate ganache poured over the top of the cooled cake layer. Vanilla frosting – Cream cheese frosting, vanilla frosting, or buttercream frosting can be spread with an offset spatula.

Other Cooking Methods

We cooked the chocolate raspberry cake in a dutch oven but there are other methods you can use that will still achieve the same great flavor. You still don’t need a mixer, whisk, or large bowl to mix everything in. Just a dutch oven that will fit in either the smoker or the oven.

Smoker – Using the grill feature on your smoker, bake this at 350 degrees for around an hour and 20 minutes. Oven – Try a conventional oven to bake the cake. Change the baking time to 40-45 minutes. Dutch oven – If you do use the Dutch oven method, using charcoal briquettes you can plan on baking for about 45 minutes, checking every 15 minutes or so.

Storing Leftover Chocolate and Raspberry Cake

If there are any leftovers from your dessert night, place the cake in an airtight container in the refrigerator for three to four days. When ready to enjoy, either eat it cold, at room temperature or warm it up in the microwave for 30 seconds.

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Dutch oven recipes are a great way to cook while still socializing. There’s something about a campfire that brings people together and good food. Try some of these favorite recipes that can all be cooked in the dutch oven!