Fire Roasted Berries with Toasted Pound Cake
Enjoy a simple dessert while camping with little cleanup when you cook cake and fruit in foil packs over the fire!
Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 1 pint strawberries sliced
- 1 pint blueberries cut in half
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 loaf pound cake cubed
Instructions
Option A Process
- Start your campfire or heat up your grill so that your heat source is ready. If using wood or charcoal, let the flames die out prior to heating your food.
- Hull the strawberries and slice thinly. Cut your blueberries in half. Cut slices of cake into cubes.
- Sprinkle with sugar and toss lightly.
- Cut six large pieces of foil and six slightly smaller pieces of parchment paper. Place one piece of parchment paper on top of each piece of foil.
- Place one sixth of the fruit mixture on one piece of paper topped foil; continue with the rest of your food.
- Wrap tightly to seal. Place packets on grate over coals.
- After five minutes, flip packets over. Flip twice more for a total of 20 minutes over the heat.
- Carefully pull the packets off and let them cool for a minute or two. Open the seams (watch out for steam!) and let cool.
- (Optional) Top your dessert with crème fraiche, whipped cream, or ice cream if desired.
- Enjoy!
Option B Process
- Start your campfire or heat up your grill so that your heat source is ready. If using wood or charcoal, let the flames die out prior to heating your food.
- Hull the strawberries and slice thinly. Cut your blueberries in half.
- Sprinkle with sugar and toss lightly.
- Cut six large pieces of foil and six slightly smaller pieces of parchment paper. Place one piece of parchment paper on top of each piece of foil.
- Place one sixth of the fruit mixture on one piece of paper topped foil; continue with the rest of your food.
- Wrap tightly to seal. Place packets on grate over coals.
- After five minutes, flip packets over. Flip twice more for a total of 20 minutes over the heat.
- While fruit is roasting, begin toasting slices of cake. We find it safest to toast fluffy cakes such as angel food inside a pie iron. However, for denser cakes such as pound cake you can do this by holding it over the fire on the long end of a s’mores stick or toasting fork. Alternatively, you can use a camp toaster.
- When the cake is toasted, place on plate or tear into pieces and place in a bowl.
- Carefully pull the packets off and let them cool for a minute or two. Open the seams (watch out for steam!) and pour the fruit over your toasted cake.
- (Optional) Top your dessert with crème fraiche, whipped cream, or ice cream if desired.
- Enjoy!