Camping Cake

By Larry Crooks

There is no stove or electricity needed, what a neat idea.

            CAMPING CAKE
        Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Needed: 12 inch Dutch Oven with lid.  25 Charcoal briquets.

Light charcoal in grill or in fire pit.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter or margarine
3/4 cup brown sugar
8 to10 pieces canned pineapple rings
1 yellow cake mix
Maraschino cherries, optional.
1-1/2 cup pineapple juice (drained from can, if needed add water or 7-Up to make the 1-1/2 cup amount)
1 tsp. vanilla

Lining dutch oven with foil will make cake removal easier.

Melt butter in dutch oven, add brown sugar and spread over bottom. Arrange pineapple slices around, put cherries in pineapple middle. Put dry cake mix in bowl, add the juice and vanilla, mix well. Pour slowly over pineapple.

Put lid on dutch oven.

When charcoal is ready (gray looking), using tongs, spread 10 of them in a circular pattern to cover outside of dutch oven bottom.  Place dutch oven on charcoal, cover with lid. Place 15 briquets on top of lid.
Will take 30-45 minutes to bake, depending on outdoor conditions (temp, wind). Top of cake will spring back at touch when fully baked.
If using foil liner, cake will easily lift out of dutch oven. Place on plate. Cover with another plate and invert. Carefully remove foil.