Camping Desserts: Campfire Skillet Apple Cobbler Recipe

Just whip up the filling and topping at home, stick it in a cooler, and get ready to enjoy a piping hot apple cobbler around the campfire!

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This campfire skillet apple cobbler is the perfect camping dessert! It's super quick to prepare in advance, it packs and travels like a dream, and it creates the most impressive fireside treat. Once you've made a dessert this delicious on the campfire, you'll never go to the mountains without it again. In fact, you may be tempted to make all your tent-adjacent meals with a skillet and a few reclosable bags.

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For the Apple Filling:

Things You'll Need

  • 3 pounds Fuji or Honeycrisp apples, peeled, cored, and sliced thin

  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice

  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch

  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

  • 1 cup brown sugar

For the Cobbler Topping:

Things You'll Need

  • 1 cup all-purpose flour

  • 1/4 cup brown sugar

  • 2 teaspoons baking powder

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled, cut into cubes

  • 1/4 cup milk

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1. Prepare the filling

Add all the filling ingredients to a gallon-size reclosable bag. Toss until well coated. Refrigerate (or add to an ice chest) until ready to use.

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2. Mix the dry ingredients

Stir together the topping flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl.

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3. Add the butter

Rub the butter into the dry ingredients with your hands until well combined. You can also use a pastry cutter or even a food processor to mix the butter into the dry ingredients.

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4. Add the milk

Stir the milk into the topping ingredients.

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5. Put it in a reclosable bag

Add the mixture to a reclosable bag. Refrigerate (or add to an ice chest) until ready to use.

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6. Pack for later use

Pack the filling bag, the topping bag, a 9-inch cast iron skillet, and some aluminum foil for your camping trip.

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Tip

Keep the filling and topping in the ice chest until you are ready to use it.

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7. Add the filling to the skillet

Once your fire is well underway (mostly hot coals with low flames), add the filling to the skillet in an even layer.

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8. Add the topping

Crumble the topping over the filling in an even layer.

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9. Cover and bake

Cover tightly with aluminum foil and add to a wire grate over the fire. Cook just until the topping has puffed and cooked, about 15-20 minutes. (The amount of time depends on how hot your fire is.)

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Warning

If the cobbler sits on the fire too long, the sugars will burn.

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10. Serve and enjoy

Carefully remove the cobbler from the fire and ladle it into bowls. It will be hot, so be careful!

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Looking for more easy camping recipes?

If you'll be hitting the road and setting up camp this summer, you'll want to check out our 8 easy one pot meals for a camping road trip!

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