Cantaloupe Crunch

Holy cow, this was really good, but very rich. Next time I make this with half the amount of sugar and half of the cake mix. As is, it put me in a sugar coma!

So delicious!

Wow! What a find! My family loved it! I increased everything by half to fit in a 9×13, and served it hot with ice cream. Definitely a do-over!

Thank you! I was searching for a recipe to use an edible arrangement I was sent during the COVID outbreak. I wasn’t comfortable eating the fresh fruit without cooking it and this was perfect. I made mine using cantaloupe and grapes.

Family loved taste like a peach cobbler. Didn’t use cake mix. I had oatmeal bar cookie mix . Mix it according except for the jelly. Anyway divided the mixture in 1/2 placed in pie plate then cantaloupe mixture then rest of bar mix. Will make again since I still have cantaloupe but use less sugar it was a little to sweet which probably depends on the fruit

A great way to use ripe cantaloupe. I made according to recipe but to the cake mix I added about a 1/4 cup sliced almond to add a little crunch. Doesn’t taste like cantaloupe, more like peach crisp to me. My husband thinks it taste like apple pie. If I have a lot of cantaloupe again I would make this.

I followed the recipe exactly but it wasn’t golden brown at 45 minutes so I cooked it an hour. The butter wasn’t enough to make a crust with the cake mix on top and it was both soggy and had pockets of cake mix in it (which is what I expected to happen, honestly, but I wanted to follow the recipe correctly.) I cut the cantaloupe pretty small and it still had way too much of that definitive cantaloupe flavor except for a few pieces which were pretty small. The texture of the cantaloupe was really off-putting in combination with the rest of it. Maybe cooking very small pieces of cantaloupe in the sugar and spice and butter mixture might make this better, as well as actually making some sort of dump cake or cobbler crust for it. As it stands, this recipe is definitely not something I would ever make again, it’s going in the trash and I never waste food. Please don’t let the positive reviews fool you; this was horrible.

This was SO good! And I don’t even like cantaloupe!!! Just follow the directions and it tastes like a peach cobbler – I couldn’t believe it! I had cantaloupe left over from a fruit basket and didn’t want to toss it, so I took a chance. I was really skeptical at first, hot cantaloupe??? Really? But when it came out of the oven, wow, it smells great. Just add whipped cream!!!

The reviews are correct…it’s definitely hard to tell this was cantaloupe as there was no melon flavor…at all. Good thing in my book. Make sure you taste your melon and adjust your sugar amount…I did not add any extra sugar since my melon was naturally sweet and with the cake mix it was really still too sweet for my liking. Everyone who tired this raved. I won’t use this recipe again but it has inspired me to create my own without using a box mix so I can control the sweetness. Another suggestion, make sure your melted butter covers the entire cake mix top or you will have powdery spots. Maybe use more than 1/2 cup melted butter or spread it out with a spatula after you drizzle it over the top

This was good, but I did some altering after reading reviews: cut the sugar to 1/3 c. and the cake mix to 1/2 a box [used Jiffy yellow cake, 9 oz]. It was still VERY sweet. Also, I cut the topping butter to 1/4 c. I added 1 c. more melon, 1 more Tbs. of lemon, and 2 more Tbs. w.w. flour. I’m glad I did, as there would have been very little runny fruit and mostly cake mix topping. At first it had a faint peach flavor. The next day it did not, but was still tasty. Hubby, who dislikes cantaloupe, didn’t like it. But he was prejudiced ahead of time knowing cantaloupe was in there.

We couldn’t get past the smell of it cooking. Tried it when it was finished and all you could taste was the cake mix no flavour with the cantaloup. VERY disappointing Next time I will try peaches and only 1/2 the box of cake mix.

I wanted to use my ripe cantaloupe and made this as well as the Cantaloupe Bread with Praline Glaze from this site. No one could tell that cantaloupe was the fruit–the seasonings over powered the fruit. Many thought it was a peach cobbler. In the end, I was asked to make the Cantaloupe Bread with Praline Glaze again but not this…sorry. It was edible but not great.

So yummy, my family loves this as much as peach cobbler.

Can I give this more stars, PLEASE???? Followed the recipe exactly – it was done 15 minutes ahead of schedule, but that just might be my oven. Tastes like peach or apricot – you’d never guess it was cantaloupe!

My Husband does not generally like cantaloupe, which is why I tried this recipe. I wanted to find a way to eat the melon we had without just eating it plain. When my husband started eating this tonight he said, “This is the best way to eat Cantaloupe in the history of the Americas!” he loved it! Only changes I made to the recipe were use more cantaloupe, and I didn’t put the 2T butter in the filling.

This is so freakin’ amazing! I was skeptical at first, but it just came out of the oven, and oh my!! It is on the (very) sweet side and as others have stated, does taste like peach cobbler. Would be great with cool whip or ice cream. Can’t wait for the hubby to get home and try it.

Amazing flavor and so easy.

Wow… this is so good! I was skeptical, first about baking cantaloupe, and then about adding cinnamon and nutmeg to cantaloupe. But I was very pleasantly surprised, and will be making this many more times! Made as written, except I used Splenda on the cantaloupe, and then only used about half of the cake mix on the top. Yummy!

After finding myself with large very ripe cantelopes, I needed to find a recipe that would use some of it up. I came across this recipe, made it, and took it to a family function. Everyone loved it but they all guessed that it was peaches. Lol.

This recipe was perfect as is. No changes needed. I can’t believe I had everything I needed for this and used up fruit that wasn’t getting eaten. Excellent!

To sweet for my family would omit all sugars as the canaloupe has natural sugars