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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.
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.)
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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