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
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.
2. Mix the dry ingredients
Stir together the topping flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl.
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.
4. Add the milk
Stir the milk into the topping ingredients.
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.
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.
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.
8. Add the topping
Crumble the topping over the filling in an even layer.
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.
10. Serve and enjoy
Carefully remove the cobbler from the fire and ladle it into bowls. It will be hot, so be careful!
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!