Campfire Dessert Recipes (2024)

Yes, S'mores may be the classic campfire dessert recipe. However,the great thing about camping is that you don't have to follow therules, even the rule that says you must have S'mores for dessertwhen you are camping. Cooking over a campfire doesn't have to limityour dessert menu. As a matter of fact, a campfire can give you someof the most amazing desserts. Here are some ideas to try.

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Campfire Pastries

by Cameron (USA)
When we go camping, we make these camp fire pastries using hinged molds. We put butteredslices of bread on each half of the mold, buttered side down, andput a spoonful of pie filling from a can on one half's piece ofbread. Then we close the hinged mold and it gets smashed together.Then we hold it over the fire for a while like toasting amarshmallow and after a few minutes you can open up the mold and youhave a hot toasty pastry pie! Really good with a little powderedsugar.

Doughnut on a Stick

by Angel Roney(Middlebrook, Mo)
Hot and fresh over the fire!
We use cheap biscuits in a can.(Crescent dough can also be used)Start by rolling a biscuit with your hands till you get a rope. Wrapaluminum foil from the top of the stick down about 5 inches.(Thiswill allow for the doughnut to slide off easily)
Wrap the dough rope around the aluminum foil. Cook over fire like amarshmallow. When done, roll in melted butter and then sprinkle withcinnamon and sugar. Icing is good on these too. Enjoy! Our kids do!

Chocolate Fondue

by Lisa(Canada)
You need one soup can, tealight and a small foil tart tin perperson. The adult takes the tin can and using a bottle opener opens3 holes around the top and the bottom of the tin. Start thetealight, then place in the tin can.
Put the tart tin on top. Add mini chocolate chips. Let the chipsmelt. Then use the skewer to dip strawberries, angel food cake orgrapes. I make the angel food cake before I leave for camp. You canalso use pound cake.

Apple Pie on a Stick

Ingredients:

• Red or Green apple
• Cinnamon
• Sugar, brown or white

Directions:
Push a stick through a green apple and turn the stick over the coalsof a campfire. (as you would when roasting a marshmallow). When theapple peel starts to loosen carefully peel off or have an adult peelskin off.

In a bowl mix together cinnamon and sugar then roll your applearound the mixture until evenly coated on all sides. Roast over firefor a few more minutes and let cool.

Easy Apple Crisp Campfire Style

Ingredients:

• 20 graham crackers, crushed fine
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (your choice)
• 2 Tbsp white sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 1 reg. can apple pie filling
• Heavy Duty deep dish aluminum foil pan
• aluminum foil sheet for sealing pan

Directions:
In a big bowl, mix together the cracker crumbs, nuts, sugar, thenpour in the butter and mix until crumbs are moistened.
Sprinkle 2/3 of the crumb mixture into the pan, then spread theapple pie filling evenly over.
Top with remaining 1/3 of crumb mixture, making sure it's evenlydistributed.
Cover pan tightly with aluminum foil.
Put pan on top of grate over slow coals and cook, moving around thegrate several times during the cooking time, for about 25 to 30minutes or until hot and bubbly.
This will make about 8 dessert size servings.
Use different pie fillings for different desserts.

Fruit Cobbler

Simple crust ingredients thrown over deliciously ripe peaches in acast iron Dutch oven or deep skillet will be a beautiful anddelicious treat. You don't need to be in your grandmother's kitchento enjoy this wonderful dessert. Instead, invite Grandma to yourcampfire and show off your own version of her classic dessert.

You don't have to limit yourself to peach cobbler, either. Bringalong any fruit or cans of any pie filling, cover with crumbles madeof oatmeal, raisins, flour, brown sugar, and a little butter, for aclassic cobbler of any flavor. The cast iron skillet or Dutch ovenis the secret to success. Top with ice cream if desired.

Banana Dessert Tin Foil

Ingredients:

• Banana
• Tin foil
• Brown sugar
• Chocolate bar or chocolate chips
• Tiny marshmallows, optional

Directions:
Slit a banana down the middle but leave the banana in the peel. Downthe slit sprinkle brown sugar, chocolate bar chopped or chocolatechips and tiny marshmallows. Wrap up in tin foil and warm in coals.

Monkey Bread

For the ultimate in campfire comfort food, Monkey Bread is adelicious way to end the day. You can make this classic treat easilyby using buttermilk biscuits in a tube, cut up, then shaken with acinnamon sugar mix and thrown into a cast iron Dutch oven. Melt upsome butter and brown sugar and pour over the biscuits, then cover,and surround the Dutch oven with coals or embers and let it bakeaway. If you don't have a Dutch oven, use a tin foil pan and wraptightly with a sheet of tin foil.

To bump this classic up a notch or two, serve with a simple icing,just like cinnamon buns. It's easy to make an icing by mixingtogether powdered sugar and milk or water, then just drizzle overthe monkey bread after you've opened it up. Then, dig in!

Camping can provide you with the opportunity to cook up some of yourabsolute favorite desserts or create something entirely different.Sweet desserts cooked over the campfire, enjoyed under the stars...what a great way to end the day.

With an adult's help campfire cooking can become great memories. Gobeyond the hot dogs on a stick or smores and try something a littlefun and unique.

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Mini S'mores

Make a traditional s'more simpler and more fun.
Ingredients:

• Large Marshmallows
• Graham crackers, chocolate wafers, or any type of flat cookie
• Bag of miniature candy bars

Directions
Roast marshmallows and place between two flat cookies and aminiature candy bar.

Crustless Hot Apple Pie

by Tiffany ( Michigan)
Ingredients:

• Apples
• Red Hot Candies
• Tin Foil

Directions:
Using an apple corer wash apples and core out seeds. Place coredapples sitting up on a 10"x10" piece of tinfoil. Fill center withred hot candies. Wrap with tinfoil and throw into a good bed ofcoals. Takes about 10 minutes depending on bed of coals. Cookuntil tender. Horray, Homemade Crustless apple pie!

S'mores Cones

Ingredients:

• waffle or sugar cones
• chocolate chips
• mini marshmallows

Directions
Add mini marshmallows and chocolate chips inside your cone. Wrap ina sheet of tin foil. Place on hot coals and cook several minutes tolet the chocolate and marshmallows melt.

Campfire Cake Recipes

Have your cake and eat it too, while you are camping! Here are twofun ways to make cake over a campfire.

Campfire Dump Cake

by LINDA
Ingredients:

• 1 can pineapple tid-bits
• 1 can cherry pie filling
• 1 yellow cake mix (or whatever kind you like)
• 1/2 cup butter cubed

Grease or spray an old pot, or a tin-foil pan to try and preventsticking. Pour the can of pineapple tid-bits in the bottom....juiceand all.
Sprinkle the dry cake mix over the pineapple. Blob the cherry piefiller around the dry cake mix.
Randomly drop the cubed butter over that.
DO NOT STIR THE LAYERS.
Cover with tin-foil. Place pot in the burned down coals of thecampfire for around 30 minutes (depends on the heat of the fire).

Campfire Orange "Cup" Cakes

This is an easy idea to use on your next camping trip. Bring alongan orange for each person, cut in half and eat it for lunch or asnack by scooping out the flesh with a spoon. Try to keep the halforange peels intact. This will leave the peel in a cup shape.

Mix cake together according to cake mix directions. (I used a spicecake which tasted great with the orange flavor) We mixed ours in aziploc bag since we were camping it was easier this way. Either useyour baggie, a jar or empty can you might have available and pourcake batter into each orange peel. Wrap up in tin foil.

Place in campfire coals and bake about 10 minutes or until cake iscooked through.

Unwrap and eat up!

Cake in a Can

• Tin cans-one per person, clean, spray with cooking spray
• cake mix in a box
• ingredients for cake mix
• campfire
• long tongs to retrieve cans

Buy a box of instant cake mix of favorite flavor, mix up batter asdirected. Fill clean soup can 2/3- 3/4 full and cover with piece oftinfoil. Place in coals in campfire and bake 5-8 minutes. Cake isdone when a skewer comes out clean.

When done, take off foil and tip upside down, cake usually fallsout, or run knife along edge in can and that will work. You couldalso let cool, and eat right out of can, with jam, syrup, orpackaged icing.
Enjoy reusing tin cans!

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