Yummy and fun to make campfire toasted cinnamon rolls.
Campfire Toasted Cinnamon Rolls – In my last post, I mentioned that our family recently had our inaugural camping trip of the year. We went with some friends and had so much fun camping in the Pacific Northwest rain forest along the coast of Vancouver Island (see last post for some photos of our trip). I love trying new camping recipes and this time I’d seen some orange/cinnamon rolls cooked in orange peels over a fire on Pinterest that looked intriguing. Loved the idea but my daughter doesn’t like oranges at all so I had to take another route…what about simply cooking them on a roasting stick? I really wasn’t sure it was going to work and honestly I kind of forgot about them until our last camping night. Once I remembered, I asked the kids if they had any interest in trying a roasted cinnamon bun experiment and they were all over it.
We cracked open a can of Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls and carefully put them on some roasting sticks. We tried a few different methods but in the end the best way was to simply insert the roll (as is straight out out of the can) on a small double pronged roasting fork. We tried on a single prong but they kept twisting and almost falling off – too much stress. We also discovered that you needed to keep turning them to make sure they were cooked all over, especially in the center. You definitely want some hot, glowing embers to cook the cinnamon rolls, a roaring fire wouldn’t work well at all. As a final surprise, I discovered that these particular cinnamon rolls came with a little container of icing…truly the icing on the cake (or cinnamon roll). Sweet, fluffy, warm and toasty – why does camping food always seem to taste extra delicious! So in the end, it turned out that our campfire cinnamon rolls experiment was a huge success and I would highly recommend it.
Campfire Toasted Cinnamon Rolls
What you need:
- Can of Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls
- Roasting prongs (preferably with the prongs close together)
- Campfire with hot embers
Directions:
- Pop open can and carefully divide the cinnamon rolls.
- Gently insert the prongs through the side of the cinnamon roll in the center of the bun making sure it’s near the back of the prongs.
- Slowly place your roll over hot embers, rotating frequently and on all sides.
- Depending on the heat in your campfire, it should take anywhere from 8-12 minutes to toast your rolls so that they are cooked all the way through.
- Remove from campfire and allow to cool slightly before carefully removing the roll from the roasting prongs. Eat and enjoy!
You can download and print the directions here.
Preparing quick meals on camping trips is easy if you have the right recipes and ingredients. Check out this great book for your next camping trip: 100 Easy Camping Recipes
I hope you enjoyed this post. Check out some of my other posts that would be great for camping including: DIY Fire Starters, Double Chocolate Pecan Cookies, No Bake Energy Balls, Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, Blank Faces Coloring Page, Jellyfish Friendship Bracelets, 10-Minute Superhero Costume, Printable Robot Coloring Page , Family Movie Night Tickets
Toasted Campfire Cinnamon Rolls
