Campfire Cake - yep, you read it right

Campfire Cake

Before preparing cake make a HOT fire to ensure you have a good bed of coals to cook your cake in.



 

Ingredients and needed supplies:
1 Box of yellow cake mix
Eggs (however many the cake mix directions tell you)
1 15 oz. can of sliced peaches, reserve the syrup/juice
Vegetable or Canola Oil
Flour
Large Iron Skillet
Tin Foil

Directions:
Grease and flour the iron skillet.  Remove the peaches from the can reserving the syrup/juice.  Place the peaches in a pattern onto the greased and floured skillet.  (See above)
Use the cake mixes box and add the called for amount of eggs, oil, and cake mix to a bowl.  Instead of the called for water use the reserved juice/syrup from peach can...add water only if you do not get the full measurement.

 Mix batter until well blended and pour over the peaches in the iron skillet being sure all the peaches are covered.  Cover the skillet tightly with tin foil.

 Place the cake in your fire pit making sure there are coals on all sides of the skillet.  Bake cake in fire pit until done about 20-30 minutes.
Loosen the cake on all side with a butter knife and flip the cake from skillet onto a platter or cookie sheet.  Serve and enjoy!

our beautiful desert baked right next to our hobo packs

Camping Crafts

Try these two fun camp activities next time your out in the great wide open.

A Pine Cone Bird Feeder

Almost every child in school has made this project.  Think about how great it would be to have bird feeder hanging around your campsite, you could attract some wonderful birds.  This is so simple, find a pine cone, add peanut butter to the ends of each layer, then stick bird seed to it.  Watch the birds have a feast!

Bird House

You Need:

• Empty, Clean 1/2 Gallon Milk Carton
• Black, Brown or Grey Paint
• Lots of Twigs
• Low Temp Glue Gun or Tacky Glue
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Pencil
• String or Fishing Line

Instructions:
Measure and mark 3" from the bottom all around an empty milk carton. Cut into 2 pieces. Saving both the top and the bottom.
Cut a 2" circle in the middle front of the top piece.  Cut the bottom piece down to 1" high. Put some glue on all four sides of the bottom piece on the outside. Push the bottom piece into the bottom of the top piece, making a new base for the milk carton. Glue pour spout closed. Paint the outside of the milk carton in a dark color. This will help the spaces you will have between the sticks blend in. Set aside to dry.
Gather lots of thin, straight sticks. Thicker sticks will go faster but you may need a hand saw or pruning shears to cut sticks to size. Thinner sticks, as shown above, can be broken to size.
Poke a hole through the middle of the top ridge. Push string or line through the hole to hang the bird house.
Break or cut sticks to cover the bottom and all sides working around the hole cut in the center front. Glue them into place. Glue a small stick under the hole for a perch.

http://www.makingfriends.com/animal/birdhouse.htm

2 easy crafts, with little or no money, be sure to bring the elmer's glue and the peanut butter!