This cake is baked inside a hollowed out orange and infused with orange scents throughout. We stuck a piece of chocolate in the middle of the batter before baking. Whatever batter was left over after filling all our oranges we cooked in a skillet like a pancake and nibbled on that while we waited for the cake to bake in the fire. We put the leftover pulp and juices into our red wine glasses for impromptu sangrias. 

Easy Campfire Orange Cake

Your favorite white or yellow or chocolate cake batter
Thick skinned navel oranges
Squares of chocolate (optional)
Foil

- Cut the tops off the oranges and carefully hollow out the orange with a spoon.
- Fill 3/4 full with cake batter. Press in a piece of chocolate if using.
- Place orange top back on the orange, wrap tightly in foil and throw onto smoldering (not flaming) campfire. 
- Turn every once in awhile. After 20 or 30 minutes, check an orange by opening it up. The skin will be charred but the inside should be nicely fluffy. If using an oven, bake as if you would a cupcake.
- Grab a spoon and eat right out of the orange. 

 

Two of the best and easiest things to have on a cold camping trip is a piece of torn campfire bread (also known as bannock) right off the skillet with a little garlic confit spread on top. The bread is crispy on the outside and soft, chewy and warm on the inside. The garlic confit is savory, a little sweet and spreads like butter. Just sprinkle some coarse sea salt and freshly cracked pepper on top.

Campfire Bread / Bannock

2 C flour
2 T baking powder
2 T sugar (or less if you prefer it less sweet)
2 pinches salt
Water

- Mix together all dry ingredients. Add water until the consistency is more like a wet dough.
- Heat some butter or oil (or both!) in a skillet, pour in the dough and spread with a fork. Cook on one side until nicely browned. Turn over and cook until the other side is nicely browned. Probably 10-15 minutes total on a stove but could vary if cooking over campfire.
-Cut into slices or just tear some off and enjoy!

Garlic Confit

As many garlic cloves as you’d like to use (I used about 5 heads of garlic here)
a few sprigs of thyme
2 bay leaves
vegetable and olive oil

-Peel garlic cloves and place in a sauce pan
- Add in the herbs and enough oil (equal parts veg & olive oil) to barely cover the cloves
- Simmer for an hour.