How To Make Campfire Muffins In An Orange Peel

Campfire Muffins: make muffins over the campfire in orange peels, such a fun campfire recipe idea for breakfast or a snack.

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Ingredients:
Orange Peel Muffin Cups
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We love cooking special camping food recipes. These campfire muffins are so fun and delicious to make. The muffins are baked inside of an orange peel, in the hot coals of a campfire. This delicious treat is so much fun to make on a camping trip.

When I first made these we'd been away camping for a few nights at the beach. We had a great time at the beach, going for long swims and making sand creatures. Another highlight was making these campfire muffins using muffin mix in an orange peel! These are a really fun idea for a campfire recipe that are really delicious.

We had 5 moms and 9 kids between us all on our camping trip, and decided to divide up the cooking so we all only had to do one meal for everyone, and lunches for ourselves. Since all of us are the main cooks at home, and cooking while camping is even more work, it was a real treat to have a little "time off".

I made one of the dinners and for dessert decided to try these campfire muffins. The muffins are baked in a hollowed out orange peel used as a muffin cup. It makes the muffin have a delicious orange flavor and smell, and insulates the muffin from burning in the campfire.

I highly recommend trying this on your next camping trip. These orange muffins are such a fun outdoor cooking idea, and a really fun camping activity.

Ingredients:

muffin mix, egg and oil according to the package directions
3 oranges
tin foil

I bought a blueberry muffin mix, and brought a ziplock bag to mix it in, and the oil and egg that it called for, along with some oranges. You could make muffin batter from scratch if you prefer, but I thought that using a store bought muffin mix was a great way to make this easy while camping. Be sure to read the ingredients you will need for your particular muffin mix. The blueberry muffin mix we used called for egg, and oil to be added to make the batter.

Orange Peel Muffin Cups

We started with the oranges, cutting them in half and scooping out the fruit without puncturing the peel. Use a spoon to help you scoop out the orange segments, and take care not to damage the orange peel cups.

Next, mix muffin mix together in the ziplock bag, by adding the other ingredients and squishing it together in the sealed bag. Next, cut off the corner of the ziplock bag and pour batter into the inside of the orange halves.

To bake the muffins, you wrap the little cups in heavy duty aluminum foil. Set the orange peel in the center of a piece of aluminum foil, and pull the corners up over the top of the orange and squeeze it together to seal it.

Then you place the foil-wrapped oranges into the coals of the fire. Don't place the campfire muffins directly in the flames.

I cooked them about 20 min., turning them after 10. I checked them with a toothpick to see if they were done.

Remove the finished campfire muffins from the coals, and then unwrap them and enjoy the best part -eating them.

The smell was amazing, fresh blueberry muffins, mixed with the scent of oranges.

I thought they were really good, and so did Paige, who ate two. The other kids were more interested in campfire popcorn, and s'mores, but they were fun to make and enjoyed by the adults. ;). The blueberry flavor pairs so well with the hint of orange flavor that comes from baking in the orange peel.

We love this idea for any camping trip or even a backyard cookout. It's such a fun and easy activity to do with your kids around a good fire.