33+ Camping Desserts: Easy Recipes To Make Yummy Sweets
The sweet stuff at the end of a meal filled with awesome camping food is the perfect way to end a day. These are the best camping desserts that’ll satisfy your taste buds on your next family camping trip!
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Camping Desserts
Easy camping desserts make perfect endings to meals in the great outdoors! You need to consider if you want …
- no-cook desserts or sweet treats you have to
- bake, fry or toast as well as what
- equipment you need to make them, or if you just want
- make ahead desserts for camping that you can prepare at home.
Dutch Oven Dessert Recipes
We love cooking with campfires and these camp oven desserts are some of our favorites.
1. Camping Smores Dutch Oven Brownies
These brownies are oooey, gooey, easy and indulgent! What more could you want for dessert? They are a great alternative to making traditional s’mores.
2. Cinnamon Cupcakes
Cinnamon lovers will go crazy over these from-scratch, almost-gourmet cupcakes that bake directly in a Dutch oven without a muffin pan.
3. Dutch Oven Carrot Cake
No electric appliances are needed for this camping version of carrot cake made from scratch using your cast iron Dutch oven. This is one of my more complicated camping dessert ideas which is great for special occasions.
4. Dutch Oven Blueberry Cobbler
This simple recipe starts with fresh blueberries that are topped with an easy cobbler … it is sooooooooo good!
5. Easy Dutch Oven Pineapple Upside Down Cake
There are not many Dutch oven desserts camping families always agree upon but this simple cake is just that for our family. It is the perfect ending to easy camping meals!
6. Chocolate Lava Dutch Oven Cakes
Who doesn’t love a little chocolate to complete a meal? These lava cakes are moist and decadent!
7. Dutch Oven Apple Dump Cake
This super-simple dessert recipe is a great alternative to making a Dutch oven apple pie. You just dump and bake this easy campfire recipe that will satisfy your sweet tooth with minimal effort. The simple ingredients create a sweet, gooey mess that many adult campers remember making when they were in Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.
Camp Cooking Tip: You can make any flavor of dump cakes by swapping out the pie filling. Peach cobbler is another popular choice.
8. Dutch Oven Cinnamon Rolls
We eat these freshly baked cinnamon rolls for dessert and for breakfast. They are awesome served hot or cold. The secret ingredient to making them easy for campsite cooking: dinner roll freezer dough balls! And the cream cheese frosting makes them sooooo good!
9. Blueberry Lemon Dutch Oven Muffins
These blueberry lemon muffins have a lovely glaze drizzled over the top and are perfect as a warm dessert or as a sweet breakfast item.
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10. Dutch Oven Cinnamon Bread
Some camp oven dessert recipes are great for breakfast too … like this yummy cinnamon bread! It goes great with a cup of joe! If you don’t know how to make coffee when camping, we have awesome methods for making big batches for large groups, multiple cups for families and techniques for brewing individual servings.
11. Upper Crust Apple Pie
This Dutch oven apple dessert is one of our favorite pies for enjoying on fall camping trips!
Dutch Oven Dome & Heat Diffuser Plate
Did you know you can bake on your propane stove using your Dutch oven with a dome and heat diffuser plate? You can! If you’ve never used this equipment before, I have an entire blog post with a VIDEO to teach you how to cook with a Dutch oven dome and heat diffuser plate on a propane stove.
12. Dutch Oven Berry Cobbler
This is one of our Dutch oven dessert campfire recipes that was originally created at home when we were trying to use all of the food we had in the house before a big move across the country!
13. Camp Dutch Oven Coffee Cake
This slightly sweet coffee cake is one of our camping breakfast ideas we make as a dessert too.
14. Lemon Blueberry Topped Campfire Dutch Baby
The combination of lemon and blueberry often make an appearance on our summer cast iron desserts camping menu because the flavors are fresh and fabulous!
Camp Cooking Tip: You can use any cast-iron skillet or cast iron pan that has a tight-fitting lid when you are making baked goods that don’t rise high during the baking process. This makes a wonderful berry campfire skillet dessert too.
15. Campfire Dutch Oven Jalapeño Cornbread
We usually make this cornbread to accompany our campfire chili but if we have leftovers (which is not very often) it quickly disappears from the dessert table!
16. Dutch Oven Cornbread
I usually make this classic cornmeal bread as a side and if there are leftovers, they get topped with a sweet cinnamon butter, a quick powdered sugar glaze or a fruity jam and eaten for dessert.
17. Dutch Oven Monkey Bread
You can make this easy, sweet and slightly crispy recipe for dessert or breakfast. You’ll be happy to have leftovers you can snack on later in your trip!
18. Campfire Brownies
The best way to keep chocolate lovers smiling is to serve brownies with chocolatey mix-ins! This one starts with a brownie mix and adds chunks of Snicker candy bars! We like serving it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream too.
Lodge Manufacturing Parchment Paper Dutch Oven Liners
We use parchment liners when we bake many of our one pot camping meals, like these brownies.
If you don’t know how to use Dutch oven liners … you should because cleanup is a BREEZE! You can make your own out of a roll of parchment paper … or use pre-cut styles.
19. Campfire Donuts Dutch Oven Camping Recipe
Want easy campfire desserts? These donuts only use 3 ingredients making them one of the quickest Dutch oven camping recipes we have ever made! Get creative and see how many ways you can use biscuit dough on your next camping trip!
Camp Stove Desserts
Camp stove recipes for dessert are so nice! Why?
- Because it is so easy to just turn your camping propane on and off … rather than dealing with campfires or charcoal briquettes.
20. Grilled Pound Cake With Berries
This is one of our camp dessert recipes that uses fresh ingredients along with packaged ones. It is so yummy you would never know it starts with a prepared pound cake!
21. Strawberry Banana Compote
This super easy sauce recipe is a great topping for ready-made desserts like store-bought pound cake, angel food cake, ice cream and thick Greek yogurt. It’s also great on pancakes, French toast, waffles and oatmeal for breakfast.
22. Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls
You’ll find these peanut butter balls on our list of camping food recipes no refrigeration required. They are perfect when you are short on cold food storage space! Peanut butter and marshmallow fluff are the main ingredients in these no-bake cookie balls.
Easy No Cook Camping Desserts
When you just don’t feel like cooking but want dessert, here are some ideas that don’t require cooking.
23. Fruit And Nut Peanut Butter Stuffed Tortilla
Don’t you love healthy desserts that are packed with protein? This stuffed tortilla is great for dessert, breakfast, lunch or a snack on the trail or at camp!
24. Fresh Fruit Tossed In Honey Mint Syrup
Fresh fruit is a healthy camping dessert but is not very exciting … until you add a honey mint syrup! Do the prep at home and this dessert becomes part of your make ahead camping meals that is perfect for the campsite.
It also works as great road trip food ideas and travel snacks for your adventures that require longer travel distances.
Make Ahead Camping Desserts
If you like baked goods but don’t want to do a lot of baking at the campsite, try making desserts that freeze well.
25. Caramel Nut Brownies
You can make these brownies at the campsite but you can also make them at home, slice them, wrap them individually and then freeze. When you are ready, just defrost as many as you need during your trip.
26. Camper Cake
We have a VIDEO and full step-by-step instructions that will help anyone make this cute and yummy camping themed cake. It’s a great dessert to celebrate special occasions on camping trips!
Campfire Desserts
Some sweet treats are perfect for campfire cooking!
27. Campfire Smores Recipes: 10 Mouth-Watering Variations
When you think of easy campfire recipes … especially classic camping food desserts … you probably think of classic s’mores. These unique variations will make you fall in love all over again with this timeless treat!
When you are planning camping meals for two, s’mores are a great option because you can make only the number you want and won’t have tons of leftover sweets from a family-sized portion dessert.
28. Campfire Cinnamon Rolls
You can’t get easier than cooking refrigerator cinnamon buns in your pie irons for dessert! Just spay a little cooking spray inside your irons and cook over your fire, turning every few minutes until they are cooked through, about 15 minutes. Spread on the frosting and enjoy!
Cooking on sticks is just one of our list of 10 fun activities and campfire games the entire family can enjoy together.
29. S’mores Campfire Cones
Drop some mini marshmallows and chocolate chips in an ice cream cone, either a sugar cone or waffle cone work well. Wrap them in foil and heat them over a campfire! Kids love this easy dessert that is a fun spin on a classic camping dessert.
30. Campfire Banana Boats
Leave the banana in its peel, slice in down the center to split it open, stuff with toppings then wrap it in foil and heat it over campfire coals just long enough to warm it up.
Stuffing ideas: chocolate chips, crushed graham crackers, mini marshmallows, peanut butter, Nutella, nuts and fresh berries.
31. Shortcake Skewers
This is a fun twist on the classic strawberry shortcake dessert. Thread pieces of your favorite fruits and store-bought pound cake onto BBQ skewers. Toast over campfire or grill until the fruit is slightly softened and cake is lightly toasted. Top with whipped cream for serving.
32. Orange Peel Brownies
Cut a hallowed-out orange peel into a cup and prepare brownie mix according to package directions. Pour brownie batter into orange peel cup and wrap in two layers of heavy-duty foil leaving a little “hook” at the top for grabbing. Set on campfire coals to bake in an upright position until brownies are baked through.
33. S’mores Nachos
This easy campfire dessert is a great way to make tasty treats for a group instead of individual servings. Take the ingredients used in classic s’mores and pile them into a cast iron skillet or foil pan. Break graham crackers into bite-sized pieces then top with chocolate chips and miniature marshmallows. Cover with tight-fitting lid or aluminum foil and heat over hot coals until the marshmallows and chocolate are slightly melted.
34. Mexican Spicy Nuts
If you are looking for a not-too-sweet snack for dessert, you need to try these spiced nuts! They are cooked in foil pouches over your campfire or grill and make really tasty vegetarian camping recipes that can be eaten throughout the day.
35. Foil Packets Apple Crisps
Lay apple slices on a piece of foil, drizzle with maple syrup and top with a little granola. Seal and heat over a campfire until the apples are tender, about 15 minutes. These campfire apple pie packets are a great gluten-free option.
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