It’s your turn to cook over the campfire on this weekend’s outdoor camping trip and you’ve got 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 be stuck in the camp kitchen while they have fun. This 1-pot, 1-step dinner dessert is sure to be remembered. And it’s so easy, you can whip it up in 5 minutes, set it on fire, and forget about it until it’s ready. The result will be a campfire desert they’ll talk about for years.

The Devil’s Cherry Cobbler dessert is cooked in a cast iron dutch oven and served there as well. Less mess, less cleanup. The only cooking utensil you will need is a cast iron dutch oven and a large serving spoon.

Devil’s Cherry Cobbler Ingredients:

  • 2 – 18-19 oz. boxes Devils Food cake mix
  • 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 down the inside of the pot with it. Leave the remaining oil in the pot.
  • Open cans of cherry pie filling and pour into 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.
  • Place both boxes Devils Food cake mix on top of cherry filling and Dr. Pepper. DO NOT SHAKE!
  • Cut the stick of butter into patties and spread over the top of the frosting.
  • Put the lid on the dutch oven, – you’re ready.

Cooking:

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

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 reset.

After 30 minutes, lift the lid and look inside, the cake should look semi-dry all over and start to pull away from the pot walls at the top. When the cake looks dry and pulls away from the sides of the pan, your dessert is ready. Take it off the heat and throw the coals off the lid.

One last tip:

As you serve each serving onto your outdoor camping buddy’s plates, be sure to “flip” the serving so that the top of the cake falls into 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 seconds. And there will be requests for seconds! This is one camping desert that never fails and always leaves them talking about what a great 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.