How To: Bake a Campfire Cobbler

This yummy cobbler baked over campfire coals will make your taste buds turn cartwheels.

A Dutch oven is a heavy iron pot with a tight-fitting lid. It’s used for making all kinds of dishes, from beef brisket to sourdough bread. Although it’s too heavy to carry in a backpack, it’s perfect to bring along when you’re car camping.

Here’s What You Need

• 1 package yellow cake mix
• 2 cans of fruit pie filling
• 1 can of lemon-lime soda
• 4 tablespoons of butter
• 12-inch Dutch oven
• Lid lifter for Dutch oven
• Heavy-duty aluminum foil
• Spoon for serving
• Extra-long kitchen tongs
• Thick leather gloves
• Charcoal (optional)

Here’s What You Do

• Let a campfire burn down to glowing orange coals or light a pile of charcoal.
• Line the inside of the Dutch oven with aluminum foil. This will make cleanup much easier!
• Spoon pie filling into the bottom of the oven. Layer cake mix over the top. Flake butter over everything. Pour in the soda, but don’t mix the ingredients.
• Put the lid on the oven and pull on leather gloves. With a grown-up’s help, use tongs to evenly space eight large coals (or charcoal briquettes) in a small circle and set the oven on top of them.
• Arrange 16 coals on the oven’s lid. Let the cobbler bake for 30 minutes, then lift the oven off of the bottom coals.
• Leave the top coals on the lid and bake for 15 more minutes or until the cobbler turns golden-brown.

Let the cobbler cool for 10 minutes — if you can wait that long!