Campfire Dutch Oven Recipes: The Devil’s Cherry Cobbler

It’s your turn to cook over the campfire on this weekend’s outdoor camping trip and you have all your recipes lined up for the campfire, trying to decide which ones to use. He wants to impress his fellow campers with his expert cooking skills, but he also doesn’t want to get stuck in the camp kitchen while they’re having fun. This 1-pot, 1-step dinner dessert will be sure to get you remembered. And it’s so easy that you can make it in 5 minutes, put it on the stove and forget about it until it’s done. The result will be a desert of campfires that they will talk about for years.

Devil’s Cherry Cobbler dessert is cooked in and served in a cast-iron Dutch oven, too. Less mess, less cleanup. The only cookware you’ll need is a cast iron Dutch oven and a large serving spoon.

Devil’s Cherry Cobbler Ingredients:

• 2 – 18-19 oz. devils food cake mix boxes
• 3 – 22 oz. cans of cherry pie filling
• 1 – 20 oz. dr pepper bottle
• 1 bar of butter
• 1 ounce. cooking oil

Preparation:

• Open the Dr. Pepper ahead of time so the carbonation can bubble, you don’t need to bubble for this campfire recipe.
• per 1oz. of cooking oil in a clean cast iron Dutch oven and use a paper towel to wipe the inside of the pot with it. Leave the excess oil in the pot.
• Open the cans of cherry pie filling and pour into the pot.
• Go ahead and drink about half of the Dr. Pepper, you only need half a bottle for this recipe. For that in the pot too.
• For both boxes of Devils Food cake mix on top of the cherry filling and Dr. Pepper. DO NOT SHAKE!
• Cut the stick of butter into patties and spread it over the top of the frosting.
• Put the lid on the Dutch oven, – You’re done.

cooking:

With this pie-like campfire recipe, you want your Dutch oven to function like an oven, so make sure you have plenty of hot campfire coals to use. You will need a good bed of coals, at least the same diameter as your Dutch oven, with enough left over to form a nice layer on the Dutch oven lid.

This recipe will take 35-45 minutes to cook. After 20 minutes, pick up the pot and turn it about 90 degrees one way and turn the lid 90 degrees the other way. Check the embers on the lid; they may need to be replenished.

After 30 minutes lift the lid and look inside, the cake should look semi-dry all over and start to separate from the sides of the pan at the top. When the cake looks dry and peels away from the sides of the pan, your dessert is ready. Remove it from the heat and throw the embers on the lid.

One last piece of advice:

When serving each slice onto your outdoor camping buddy’s plates, be sure to “flip” the slice so the top of the cake falls to the bottom with the cherries on top. This is the final touch that makes it a true camp shoe rack.

This campfire recipe will serve about 15 campers, with maybe a little left over for a few seconds. And there will be requests for seconds! This is one camping desert that never fails and always leaves them talking about what a good cook you are. And you have time to enjoy your braces because all you had to do to clean up was put the Dutch oven back on the heat and let it bake itself.