Did you know that you can still have warm gooey cinnamon rolls even while “roughing” it? I learned, while at the Grand Canyon last week, that I could “bake” cinnamon rolls right on the campfire. It really kind of happened by accident, but we’ll keep that between you and me.
I actually found a recipe on this site that explained how to bake canned cinnamon rolls inside a hollowed out orange. This was my original plan. Until a squashed orange and a hot trailer compartment molded my oranges and tried to thwart my plans. But being the former Girl Scout that I am, I improvised!
I knew you could bake on a campfire using a Dutch Oven. Unfortunately, I didn’t have one handy (I don’t have one at all). But I did have my favorite cast iron skillet. So I placed my 5 large, Cinnabon style Cinnamon rolls into my skillet, put a lid on it, and placed it on the fire.
I told the boys not to get their hopes up.
But, after about 10 minutes, I took a peek…
HOLY COW! We had half baked cinnamon rolls! WOOT!
The instructions on the can of rolls said to bake for 20 minutes. So I checked again a bit later and Viola! Cinnamon rolls.
Now, the bottoms were a little overdone (burned). But we just picked the black part off and enjoyed the gooey goodness anyways. My advice for you (and myself) is next time, don’t place the skillet directly over the flame. Keep it to the side, but still in the heat, so that the bottom doesn’t burn.
Now, if you are planning a camping trip, be sure to at least have a good cast iron skillet with you. I hope to be getting a cast iron Dutch Oven before we go out again. There is so much you can do on a campfire with a dutch oven.
Anyhow, take a can of cinnamon rolls with you and you’ll be the most popular person at camp!
Those cinnamon rolls look super good! I am going to keep in mind to bring some with me whenever we go camping (if that happens). My husband for some reason does not LIKE to camp. I told me maybe we can go camping somewhere that has a cabin…..
A cabin isn’t camping! LOL
Grand Canyon has cabins
Ooooh. I am going to have to check that out. I am trying to think of a good family vacation for next summer…. Gotta start saving early $$$….
I know one of the PBS stations often has a guy that cooks with a cast iron Dutch oven. He takes coal bricketts with him and heats them up in the fire
and then sits the Dutch oven on the ground and puts about 14 bricketts that have started turning white on the lid on the Dutch oven and the heat cooks
the stuff from the top down.
I think he even has a cookbook. I don’t know the name, but I bet if you did
an internet search for campfire dutch oven cooking, you might be able to
find something.
He makes all sorts of things in it, like upside down Pineapple cake, etc..
Experimentation is fun though, and I think even if they were a little burnt
on the bottom, the tasty tops all than more made up for that.
oh, neat! I’ll have to try and google it then. Thanks!
I looked for the recipe but didn’t find it – could you post it?
I’m sorry. There is no “real” recipe. Just a can of pillsbury cinnamon rolls “baked” on the fire in a cast iron pan. Good luck.