Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Best Campfire Desserts

Camping can be a lot of fun and cooking over an open fire can be enjoyable as well. Popular campfire food is usually anything, which is easy to cook. Traditional campfire desserts include plain marshmallows, which you can spear on sticks and roast over the flames, and smores which are also known as s’mores.

What are Smores?

Perhaps you have heard of smores, which can also be spelt s’mores. A smore is a chocolate and marshmallow layer inside two graham crackers. “Smore” is an abbreviation of “give me some more” and there is a recipe for smores in the 1927 Girl Scout handbook, so they have been around for a while.

To make a smore, you need to roast a marshmallow on a stick until it is golden brown and melting and then pinch it between two graham crackers. You can put some chocolate on the graham crackers first. A bit of peanut butter is also a tasty touch.

It is possible to get smores packs in the summer months in some grocery stores and this would be graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallows packaged together. Once you know how to make smores, you will find them really easy. You can also get indoor smore ovens which are like fondue pans.

It is possible to microwave smores, although the graham crackers come out a bit soggy. You can also get Pop-Tarts in smore flavor with a chocolate and marshmallow center and a graham cracker flavored outside.

Making Indoor Smores

Indoor smores are ideal if you are not camping but you still fancy this type of sweet, sticky treat. There are many different smores recipes to try. Peanut butter, golden grahams, milk, chocolate, jello pudding, ice cream sauce and more are all popular ingredients for making indoor smores. All you need to do is combine the ingredients and chill the mixture until it sets. You will still have the same chocolate and marshmallow flavor as when you make regular smores but the method for making indoor smores is quite different.

Other Campfire Delicacies

Take some cake mix and oranges on your next camping trip because there is a great dessert you can make. Chop the tops off the oranges and hollow them out. Make up the cake mix, using some of the fresh orange juice instead of the water, and fill the oranges with the cake mix. Put the lids back on and wrap them in aluminum foil and bake them over the campfire until the cakes are cooked. This is a delicious and warming treat.

If the weather is not great, what about making finger jello at home and taking it on your camping trip? Finger jello is made when you just add boiling water to jello powder and do not add the cold water afterwards. You can eat finger jello with your fingers because it is firm and not sticky. Finger jello makes a nice snack any time.

Golden Grahams smores have the crunch of graham cracker, the sweetness of chocolate and tiny marshmallows suspended in creamy vanilla pudding. The only thing better than traditional smores is this recipe. You’ve got to serve it to your children… they will think they have arrived in heaven.

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