by N Zinser

Created on: August 20, 2009

Think that your camping trip means you can't get any baking done? Think again! Making campfire biscuits are a fun and easy way to get a bit of baking in.

Choose Your Dough

There are a couple of different dough options. One is the standard refrigerator dough, which takes all the hassle out of this task. Using a Bisquick mix is also a relatively easy way to accomplish this, or you can mix up your own yourself. The mix you can make yourself is a basic combination of flour, baking powder, salt, fat (butter or shortening), and water. Any doughs you mix yourself, you will need to do a small amount of kneading. It is only a few turns; as a biscuit dough is much more delicate than a yeast based dough. Only four or five turns is needed to get this done. If you use a refrigerator dough, this step is unnecessary. Once you choose and prepare your dough, you are ready to move on to the second task: baking.

Baking

Baking your campfire biscuits is where it really gets fun. As there is no oven, just open flame, baking is done in this way: using a long stick, cover the end with tin foil. Take a small amount of dough (one you can roll comfortably in your palm) and roll it in your hands. On the foil-covered end, place the rolled dough securely on the tip. Piercing the roll is unnecessary, just making sure it won't fall off is the objective here. Hold biscuit over the flame until it is golden brown. This, however, is not the only way to bake these. If you have a grate over your fire, you can put the biscuits on a sheet pan, or even tin foil, and bake for 12-15 minutes, or until done. The sheet pan method produces the same result, but the "stick" method has another draw: no pan to wash!

Enjoy!

The benefit to the "stick" method of cooking a campfire biscuit is that with the completed biscuit, it can now be filled with your choice of fillings! Honey, jams, peanut butter. You can fill it with standard sandwich fillings, or even go the breakfast route and fill with scrambled eggs. Campfire biscuits are an interactive and fun way to prepare food while camping. This is something the whole family can prepare together, and enjoy. Now get out there, and get cooking!

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