It’s amazing how food often tastes better when made on a campfire. Breakfast is a meal that gives you the energy to get through an adventurous day outdoors. Enjoy some delicious foods while you sip coffee sitting in your camp chair. For some ideas for great breakfasts while camping, check out the great camping breakfast ideas listed below.
Toast with Jam and Fruit
Start out with a simple and easy breakfast which is also healthy and light. Get the bread toasted on the campfire grate and slather it with butter. Add your favorite seasonal fruit to top it off for a really tasty breakfast.
Pie-Iron French Toast
It’s a smart move to take a pie iron on your camping trip. It is good for many things, but especially for making campfire French toast. Besides a pie iron, you’ll need eggs, butter, cinnamon, bread, your favorite fruit, and syrup. Butter your pie iron. Break some eggs into a bowl and scramble, adding a tablespoon of cinnamon. Dip bread into the mixture so both sides are covered. Place the bread into the sides of the buttered pie iron. Top with your favorite fruit and close the pie iron, warming it over the fire. Once your French toast is all warmed up, put a little syrup over it, and enjoy.
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Skillet Scramble
Ingredients for this breakfast are eggs, sausage or bacon, and fixings such as veggies, cheese, mushrooms, peppers, and onion. You’ll also need a cast iron pan for this home-style scramble. Put the eggs, bacon, any veggies you like, as well as other fixings into the pan and mix it over the fire. To prevent sticking, be sure to use butter or olive oil in the pan. Everyone will enjoy this traditional breakfast.
Campfire Donuts
For those with a sweet tooth, this is a breakfast to die for. You will need cooking oil, a tube of refrigerated biscuits, granulated sugar, and cinnamon. Put enough cooking oil in a cast iron pan so you can submerge the refrigerated biscuits. Take a ziplock bag and shake together a cup of granulated sugar and 2 tablespoons of cinnamon. Open the tube of biscuits, separate, then poke a hole in the middle. Fry the biscuits evenly on each side once the oil is bubbling. Drain them on a paper towel and cover them in the sugar-cinnamon mixture until fully coated.
Yogurt and Granola
This is a delicious and fast breakfast when you want to hurry out and participate in all kinds of activities. You can bring along some cups of yogurt and a package of granola to make it ultra-simple. But you can also make your own granola. You’ll need oats, peanut butter, shredded coconut, cinnamon, and coconut oil or butter. Put it all in a cast iron pot over a fire and stir it while it cooks. Once the oats are brown, remove it and let it cool.
Omelet Bar
Set up an omelet bar at your campground. You can place all the fillings such as veggies, cheese, beans, and bacon on a picnic table. Each camper goes through the line, filling their plate with their favorite fillings. Someone can be designated chef and he or she can whip up the person’s omelet.
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Sweet Dutch Baby Pancakes
These pancakes are made in a cast iron pan. You will be whipping 6 eggs, a cup of flour, a cup of milk, a teaspoon of salt, and a tablespoon of sugar in a bowl. Then after adding ¼ cup of butter to your pan, you pour a serving into your pan. In about 25 minutes, your pancake will be fluffy. Place syrup, fruit, and/or powdered sugar on top.
Campfire Apple Crisp
If you want a nice healthy and delicious breakfast, try whipping up some apple crisps. You’ll need to add coconut oil to a cast iron pan. Other ingredients you’ll need are apples, rolled oats, cinnamon, maple syrup, hemp seeds, and chopped almonds. Ensure the ½ cup of rolled oats first get coated with oil, then sprinkle in a ½ teaspoon of cinnamon, and a tablespoon of maple syrup. Add 2 tablespoons of chopped almonds and 2 teaspoons of hemp seeds. Finally add slices of apples and let everything crisp. Once you spoon this into a bowl for each person, it’s a ready-to-eat breakfast everyone will rave about.
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