Recipe: Dutch Oven Peach Cobbler Dessert

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by Mark Stephens on Tue Nov 23, 2010 - (2) Comments

Peach cobbler from a dutch oven
I know it doesn't look like much - but sink your teeth in and you'll fall in love

When you cook a peach cobbler in a Dutch oven (affiliate link) at the campfire and serve it to your friends, you'll have allies for life. I like pulling off the lid when the dessert is ready and walking it around so everyone gets a solid whiff of the sweet peaches and cinnamon rising in a puff of steam. They moan.  They groan. They smile.

Everyone - everyone - will be your BFF. That's because they don't even know how easy this is. Suckers.

Peach cobbler dutch oven ingredientsIngredients

  • 2 cans, sliced peaches
  • 1 box of yellow cake mix
  • 12 oz 7UP
  • Ground cinnamon

Directions

  1. Drain one can of peaches - or don't if you like it juicier.
  2. Add peaches of both cans to the oven
  3. Dump in the cake mix and level it
  4. Pour 7UP on top as evenly as possible
  5. Sprinkle the cinnamon on top
  6. Close the lid, place the oven on a small bed of coals, add more coals on top of the lid. Don't go crazy, you don't have to bury it.
  7. Let it cook for 45 minutes

Short Cuts and Alternates

  • Instead of 7UP, use a stick of butter cut up into several pats. Don't tell your doctor about it.
  • Use any cake mix you want
  • Try different fruit; pears, for example, are decent but not as sweet. Pineapple?  Blueberry?  Go wild.

Note: This recipe is catered for the 10" (4 quart) Lodge cast iron Dutch Oven. Get your dutch oven from REI (affiliate link).

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Dinetonite
0 # Dinetonite 2010-12-02 09:01
I love peaches!!!!!!!
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kris
0 # kris 2012-05-06 00:39
What a fantastic camping dessert! I hope you don't mind but I included your link in my link party for camping ideas and tips.
Thank you for sharing.
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