Bush Hotdogs
While you make up a damper dough, get the kids to look around for some thick (sausage sized) sticks.
Spray each stick with cooking oil.
Cook some sausages and leave them to cool a little.
Divide the kneaded dough into balls for each stick, making sure you’ve made enough dough to mold around each stick. You don’t want the damper to be too thin around the stick as it will crack too easily.
Once you’ve molded the damper around the stick so it’s nice and smooth, with no cracks, cook it over the campfire until golden and cooked through. When ready, it should feel quite firm and it’s ok if it’s a little soft in the middle. Once cooked, gently slide off the stick.
If you like, you can fill the hole with sauce, before inserting a sausage. There you have it, a bush hotdog!
Bounty Apples
For this recipe you will need Granny Smith (green) apples. One apple per serving. You will also need a packet of fun sized Bounty (coconut and chocolate bars). You could use any sort of small chocolate bar really.
Peel and core the apples (we use an apple corer for this), keeping the apple whole.
Stuff each hole with 2 x fun sized bounty bars.
Wrap each apple in foil and cook in the coals, turning occasionally so they don’t burn.
Cook until soft.
Once cooked, remove foil and serve. Even more delicious with ice-cream or custard!
Nutella Campfire Cannoli
These are so easy to make and oh so yum!
Get the kids to collect some thick sticks and you will also need - aluminium foil, cooking spray, Nutella and some custard or cream.
Wrap some foil around a stick, making sure that any sharp edges are well covered. Spray with oil.
Cut a sheet of shortcrust pastry into four squares.
Carefully wrap one of the squares around the foil covered part of the stick, leaving about an inch around the top to seal it well and prevent holes. Don’t squish the pastry onto the stick or it will become too thin & crack or break when you pull it off after cooking. Just mould it gently.
Next hold it over the fire, rotating slowly so it cooks evenly. Don’t hold it in one spot too long or it will burn. Once cooked, let it cool for a few minutes before very gently sliding it off the foil covered stick. Note, if properly cooked through, it should slide off the foil quite easily. If not, it might need to be cooked a little longer.
Fill with Nutella & custard. Thick custard is better so it’s not so runny, We usually dollop Nutella in first, followed by a little custard, then more Nutella & a small drizzle of custard on top!
S’Mores
For our version of this popular campfire recipe, we use Pascall Marshmallows and either Coles or Woolworths Choccy Wheats or Chocolate Wheatens. They are a plain digestive biscuit with a chocolate coating on one side.
Toast two marshmallows
Take two biscuits with the chocolate coating facing inwards and place the two toasted marshmallows in between, like a sandwich. Push the two biscuits gently together and devour. Delicious!
Variation: Use plain digestive biscuits, white marshmallows and a dollop of the best lemon curd you can find and you’ve got yourself a Lemon Meringue S’more. Incredible!
Toad in the Hole
Toad in the Hole would have to be our family’s favourite campfire breakfast food. Here is what we do -
Using a scone cutter or your choice of cookie cutter, cut a hole out of each slice of bread, keeping the part you cut out!
Cook some bacon on a grill/hotplate over the fire.
Once almost cooked, place each piece under a slice of bread on the hotplate.
Crack an egg into the hole.
Once the egg is cooked enough for flipping, place the piece of bread you cut out over the hole and flip it over gently until egg is cooked to your liking.
Orange Brownies
A chocolate brownie infused with the delicious flavour of orange. This is a decadent campfire dessert indeed!
Mix up a brownie batter (we use Donna Hay Molten Chocolate Chunk Brownie packet mix when we are camping - serves about 6 oranges)
Cut the top of an orange and scrape out the insides using a metal spoon (you can keep the fruit for brekky the next morning).
Spoon brownie mix into the the hollowed out orange and replace the cut off orange lid.
Wrap in two layers of foil and place in campfire right side up (you don’t want it to spill out the bottom!)
Cook in the coals for about 15-20 mins, moving about regularly so it does not burn)
Serve with ice-cream or cream. Yum!