Looking for Campfire Treat Ideas

Orange cake! A couple of good size oranges, cut in half and hollowed out leaving the rinds in tact. One box of Jiffy Vanilla Cake mix. Fill each half of the orange with the cake mix. Wrap in foil and place in the coals for about 10 minutes. The BEST Orange cake ever!!!
One of our favorites!

We've done canned biscuits wrapped around a stick and rolled in cinnamon sugar. Take the biscuit dough and roll it into a 1/2" log. Wrap it around the stick and bake it to browned and immediately roll it in a pie pan with the sugar mixture. We always had the best luck with the plain biscuits.

I don't know what they're called, but they're good!:

Slit a banana lengthwise, right through the skin on top, don't cut the bottom skin. Fill with chocolate chips, marshmallows (optional for your daughter with braces), caramel chips, butterscotch chips, etc.

Wrap in foil and nestle in the coals for 5-10min.

The skin will keep the banana "meat" itself from charring and all the goodies inside will be melted. Eat with a spoon.

rav wrote:
pie irons - we cook dinner and dessert in them. we also get our camping friends to bring a few ingredients for a fun and creative dinner.

http://www.pieiron.com/recipes.htm

If you enjoy pie iron cooking, try a variation of the venerable "Monte Cristo" sandwich. A Monte Cristo is generally a deep-fried club sandwich served with jelly. You can make a ham/turkey/swiss club and cook it in the pie iron--coat the outsides of the bread liberally with butter. Even less healthy but more tasty, batter the sandwich before putting it in the pie iron.

Serve with the jelly of your choice, of course!

Pie iron "potlucks" are fun, rav!

pie irons - we cook dinner and dessert in them. we also get our camping friends to bring a few ingredients for a fun and creative dinner.

http://www.pieiron.com/recipes.htm

Our family favorite is cat tails!

Use biscuit mix (we use biscuix sp??) mixed a bit dry, roll it out about 3/8 in thick, cut onto 3-4 inch disks with a cookie cutter or a glass. You'll need fairly thick sticks, broom handle size is good but at least thumb size, with bark stripped off about 6 inches. Carefully shape the disk over the end of the stick and spread it down 4 inches or so. Flour helps to prevent sticking to your hands. Yeah, it will be like a thick condom! Slowly roast over the fire until golden brown, if cooked well it will come off the stick cleanly. You will now have a test tube shaped cooked cat tail! Fill in the hole with a bit of butter and your favorite home made jam and enjoy! Or, I guess you could fill with chocolate chips and let em melt.

Way less sugar than s'mores or marshmallows, and it takes a bit of time so keeps the kids occupied. Ours are now in their 30's and they still ask for cat tails when we are around a fire!