Apple Pie S’mores
Helen Olsson is an award-winning writer, former editor and the author of The Down & Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids.
Recipe reprinted from The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids (Roost Books 2012). Metric conversions added by The Cook‘s Cook.
- Servings Serves 4
Ingredients
Equipment
- Heavy-duty aluminum foil
For the S'mores
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 Granny Smith apples
- 8 graham cracker squares
- 4 marshmallows
Preparation
1. At home, combine the brown sugar and cinnamon in a small plastic baggie.
2. At camp, peel, core, and slice the apples into 1.2 cm (½ -inch) wedges. Place the slices on a large square of foil and sprinkle with the cinnamon-sugar mix. Wrap the foil into an airtight packet.
3. Once the fire has burned down, place the foil pack on hot coals and cook for 5–10 minutes.
4. Place a few cooked apple slices on four graham cracker squares.
5. Roast the marshmallows.
6. Set the roasted marshmallows on the apples, top with second graham cracker square, and gently squeeze while removing roasting stick.
Helen Olsson
Helen Olsson is the author of The Down & Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids, which includes recipes for kid-pleasing meals in camp as well as trail snacks and campfire desserts. She is a former editor at Skiing magazine, winner of a Canadian Tourism’s Northern Lights Journalism Award, and a finalist in the Women’s Sports Foundation Sports Journalism Awards. Olsson’s stories have appeared in Ski, Delicious Living, Sports Illustrated for Women, Elevation Outdoors, and Women’s Sports & Fitness.
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