Campfire Chocolate Cake Recipe
- Oil or possibly margarine and flour for greasing pot
- 1 sm thermos c. flour
- 1 lrg soup spoon of lowfat milk pwdr
- 1/2 lrg soup spoon baking pwdr Healthy pinch salt
- 1 Tbsp. margarine or possibly oil
- 3 lrg soup spoons of sugar
- 1 x egg
- 2 x (1-oz) squares semi-sweet baking chocolate About 1/4 thermos c. water Dash of brandy or possibly vanilla Water Rich chocolate icing
- 2 x -3 (1-oz) squares semi-sweet baking chocolate
- 1 Tbsp. margarine About 1/4 thermos c. water Dash of brandy or possibly vanilla
- Build fire, developing a bed of coals.
- Grease and flour smallest pot you have.
- In a separate medium pot, mix flour, lowfat milk pwdr, baking pwdr and salt.
- In lid, cream margarine and sugar.
- Add in egg, combine till smooth.
- Heat chocolate over fire with a little water, being careful not to burn chocolate.
- Add in chocolate and brandy to margarine, sugar and egg mix.
- Stir into dry ingredients with sufficient water to make a smooth, thick batter.
- Scrape into greased, floured pot and cover.
- Clear a space in front of fire and set pot in it.
- Rake warm ashes around pot at least halfway up sides.
- Depending on size of pot, temperature of coals, and weather, cake should take 25-30 min.
- Rotate pot in coals to bake proportionately, adding ashes if fire seems cold.
- Cake is done when knife inserted into center comes out clean.
- Cold in pot, then run knife around edge and turn it out.
- For icing: Heat chocolate in pot lid with sufficient water to keep it from scorching.
- Chocolate should be thick and smooth.
- Add in margarine, stir till melted, remove from heat.
- Add in brandy.
- Cold till chocolate thickens.
- (On warm day, setting frosting container in cold creek water helps.)
- When chocolate has frosting consistency, ice cake.
oil, flour, lrg soup spoon, baking pwdr, margarine, sugar, egg, chocolate, chocolate, margarine
Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/campfire-chocolate-cake-98357 (may not work)