Dutch Oven Morning Coffee Cake
Submitted by antsnmaine
A campfire coffee cake made in a cast iron Dutch oven with charcoal. Bisquick batter over pie filling, topped with cinnamon sugar and butter. Wake up the whole campsite with this one.
YIELD
1 cakePREP
20 minCOOK
40 minREADY
60 minNothing beats waking up at a campsite to the smell of cinnamon sugar and bubbling fruit drifting from a Dutch oven over hot coals.
This coffee cake is designed for outdoor cooking: dry ingredients get pre-mixed in a ziplock bag at home, pie filling or canned fruit goes in the bottom of the Dutch oven, and the batter drops right on top.
A generous sprinkle of cinnamon sugar and dots of butter finish it off before the lid goes on with charcoal piled above and below.
Forty minutes later, you’ve got a warm, fruit-bottomed coffee cake that makes you the most popular person at camp.
Kitchen Tips
- Line the Dutch oven with foil for easy cleanup, especially with cast iron. Nobody wants to scrub baked-on sugar at a campsite.
- Pre-mix dry ingredients at home in a ziplock bag. At camp, just add water, squeeze to combine, and you’re ready to go.
- Coal placement matters. More coals on top than bottom prevents burning. Roughly two-thirds on the lid, one-third underneath.
- Any canned pie filling works. Cherry, apple, blueberry, or peach all make great bases.
Ingredients
Directions
Put the bisquit mix, sugar, and milk powder in a zip lock food storage bag.
Minimize the air in the bag.
If using a cast iron dutch oven, line it with aluminum foil.
Put the fruit or pie filling in the bottom of the dutch oven.
Mix the liquid with the dry mix in the zip lock bag.
Be careful not to break the bag.
Add a little more liguid if the fixture is dry.
Put the dough onto the fruit in the dutch oven.
If the dough is firm, drip it in pieces over the fruit.
Sprinkle the top of the dough with cinnamon sugar and dot withsmall pieces of margarine.
Put the lid on the dutch oven and place about 24 charcoal coals on the lid and about 18 coals under the bottom.
Bake for 40 minutes.
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