Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly spray a 9x13 baking dish.
Dump cherry pie filling and crushed pineapple into the baking dish. Stir to combine evenly.
Sprinkle cake mix powder over the fruit mixture.
Melt butter in a microwave safe bowl. Drizzle over cake mix as evenly as possible to try and cover the entire top. It's ok if a few spots are left uncovered. Sprinkle with chopped nuts.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 45- 50 min or until fruit is bubbling and cake is a light golden brown. Remove from oven and cool on a cooling rack.
Serve warm or room temperature with ice cream or whipping cream.
Notes
Make sure that you make even layer of the cake mix over the fruit. That way, all the cake has a topping.
I recommend making sure you use butter, not margarine. Melt it and drizzle as evenly as possible to make sure you don’t have unmixed cake powder.
You can change up the fruit in this recipe if cherry and pineapple aren’t your thing. Just be sure to have the same volume of fruit as this recipe.
If you are feeling lucky, consider using a chocolate cake instead of vanilla or yellow.
For a richer flavor, add 2 teaspoons of almonds extract to the fruit mix.
If you don’t have a can of cherry pie filling, make it homemade!
Nuts are optional, but they do add a lot of delicious flavor to the cake. I like chopped pecans with this too!