This is awesome.

Seriously, I'm building a campfire as I type this.

I tried it once. Half burnt and half raw batter. Glad I got it out of my system.

Oh my gosh, that brings back memories of Grade Six... back in the '70's!!! One of our camp buddies did that for us on a field trip! Cool!

It makes me think of shortcake on a stick: also half burnt half raw, but I loved it! :)

Oh... Pilsbury? Not for me... Any chance of having a DIY version? (I'm no chemist.)

Clever - but I don't ever experiment with camp food.

I still have nightmares about the girl scout camp where they made us eat "boiled zip-lock bag omelets." Out of the 20 of us at camp, only 3 or 4 didn't get violently sick.

Cake may be safer - but I'll still pass.

I am all about camping comforts, but a WHISK?! FOR REAL?

Yep... made it, enjoyed it.

Chocolate cake mix goes extraordinarily well with this

The secret to getting this or any campfire cooking right is to get your fire right.

Chocolate cake mix in the oranges might be a nice dessert to make next time we have company.
Maybe I'll experiment this weekend.

We used to do this years ago when I was a girl scout with yellow cake mix. At the time it seemed delicious, but my sister and I were recently talking about how gross that cake mix was. I wonder how it would be with a simple homemade mix.

Tried it once as a Girl Scout. Ugh, it was terrible.

Tried it again a few years ago. It was still terrible.

We make this at the summer camp I work at all the time--but these guys have made one huge, cardinal error. Water in the batter = no extra flavor. Now, slicing the oranges in half, squeexing the juice, making the batter with the fresh squeezed OJ instead of the water? Unbeatable. And we also managed to find just-add-liquid cake mix that didn't require eggs or oil, and so batter-eating was fair game--and, of course, the best part of the process! ;)

Emb is completely right. We did this all the time at summer camp, which was good, because we weren't allowed much else in the way of sugar.

That looks like fun, but these make my mouth water!
http://www.gourmetmomonthego.com/2010/07/orange-cup-cinnamon-rolls.html

Cook's Illustrated's Emergency Chocolate Cake (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/24/earlyshow/series/main965821.shtml) works well -- it was a big hit on my students' first camping trip this year.

ankarli is right. the key to getting a fully cooked cake is your fire. do not place the foil wrapped oranges directly in the fire, but rather close to it where it still gets direct heat.

johndoughy, my husband and i both worked at outdoor stores and could survive in the wilderness for days with only a spiderco, but we still think whisks are MAGICAL. we hope one day you will too.

em & tim

I've made these on the grill before with chocolate cake batter, they came out delicious! I put them on after dinner was cooked so the coals were a bit cooler. the orange peels got a bit black, but the cake inside was delicious!

a trick to making the filling of these a little easier - put the batter in a ziptop bag, then cut off a small corner of the bag and pipe in. this was much faster and less messy than trying to spoon it in to each orange peel shell.

Weird!

I liked it better when Alice did it.

This is standard Boy Scout utensilless cooking. You can also cook hamburger inside the orange. This is usually more about thinking of how to get around problems than making great food. Give me a Dutch Oven any day.

I never would have thought that baking a cake in orange peel. Does the cake taste a little bit of orange? Thanks

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