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Looking for a campfire dessert to add to your list of favorite camping recipes? Bring a pie iron on your next camping trip! You can make all kinds of delicious things using one, including this pie iron cherry pie which is so tasty! You only need a few ingredients to make these campfire pies and the recipe is really easy to follow. Even if you aren’t camping, you can fire up the grill out back and make these wonderful pudgy pies for everyone to enjoy.
Canned biscuits, cherry pie filling, marshmallows, and chocolate chips come together to make this wonderful pie iron dessert recipe.
Also try pie iron cheesy tater tots, campfire banana boats, or any of these fantastic foil packet recipes.
Why You’ll Love It
Easy: It’s so simple to prepare cherry pie. You just need to put cherry pie filling, marshmallows and chocolate chips between two layers of biscuit dough and cook to perfection over the fire. Cooking over a campfire is so easy!
Tasty: Nobody will be able to resist these delicious sweet treats, especially those with a sweet tooth!
Camping friendly: As none of the ingredients have to be refrigerated or frozen, they’re all easy to bring camping with you.
Campfire Cherry Pie Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Canned biscuits: Canned biscuit dough makes your cherry pie crust and this dough cooks to a beautiful golden brown.
Cherry pie filling: Another shortcut. Canned pie filling is definitely easier than making your own and the sweet cherries are perfect for pie making.
Marshmallows: These add a sweet touch. You can use large ones cut in half or mini ones if that’s what you have.
Chocolate chips: Semisweet, milk or white chocolate all work, or you might prefer to use a mixture.
Non stick cooking spray: To stop the pie crusts sticking to the pie iron.
How to Make Campfire Cherry Pie
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card
Prepare the campfire: This is, as you’d expect, the first thing to do. Get it nice and hot! If you’re cooking the main course on the campfire too (perhaps some tasty shrimp scampi hobo pies or Philly cheesesteak packs) then it will already be hot. If you are new to using pie irons, this guide to cooking with a pie iron may be helpful.
Assemble the cherry pudgy pies: Flatten the biscuits so you have 10 of them. Lay 5 of them down, top with cherry pie filling, marshmallow and chocolate chips, and add the remaining ones on top, sealing with your fingers or the tines of a fork.
Cook them: Spray your pie iron with cooking spray and put a pie in there. Close pie iron and put it over the coals. Cook for 10 minutes or until done, then serve hot. Cook the remaining pies.
Substitutions and Variations
Gluten-free option: If you want a gluten-free version, you can use your favorite gluten-free dough or gluten-free bread slices instead, to make your cherry mountain pies.
Another fruit: Not really a cherry pie fan? Consider apple pie filling or strawberry pie filling instead.
Mini marshmallows: Mini marshmallows work just as well as larger ones (and don’t need to be cut in half).
Serving Suggestions
Appetizers: Enjoy some cool ranch jerky trail mix or chicken blue cheese salad (if you have access to a refrigerator).
Main dishes: Next up, how do sausage and pepper foil packs, gnocchi foil packs or these French dip sandwiches sound? They’re all really good!
How to Store Cherry Pudgy Pie
Store: These are best eaten as soon as they’re made but if you have leftovers, wrap tightly in foil and eat within a day or two.
Reheat: Heat them back up over the campfire or, if you’re back home, in the microwave.
Top Tips
Cook several at once: If you’re using a small pie iron you will need to cook these individually. But with a larger one (this is my fave!) you can cook several at one time.
Campfire tips: Make sure the campfire is hot before you start cooking these. It’s best to put the pie iron over the coals and not directly in the flames.
Experiment with these: What about including some of your favorite add-ins? Chopped nuts are nice in there or you could try butterscotch chips or mix some finely chopped fresh pineapple or apple into the pie filling. A little cinnamon sugar on the outside of the pies is delicious too.
Pudgy Pies with Cherry Pie Filling FAQs
That’s up to you. If you’re roughing it and don’t have access to a refrigerator or freezer, you can enjoy these as they are. If you have a fully fitted RV, you can bring whatever chilled or frozen items you like.
Yes. If you’re making grilled cheese, mountain pie or veggies with pizza sauce in your pie iron for the main course and then going to make cherry pies for dessert, just wipe the pie iron clean in between the different courses. If you camp a lot or there’s a crowd, you might like to invest in several pie irons.
Well, biscuit dough is the sturdier option but if you want to try buttered white bread or your favorite gluten-free loaf, you can use that instead. Just take care the cherry pie desserts don’t fall apart. Maybe don’t use one slice of bread on either side – try two slices instead for extra strength to hold in all that lovely filling and put the slices butter side outwards so there’s less chance of your mountain pies sticking to the cast iron.
Pie Iron Cherry Pies Recipe
Pie Iron Cherry Pie
Ingredients
- 1 Package canned biscuits
- 1 Can cherry pie filling
- 5 marshmallows, full-size
- ¼ Cup chocolate chips
- non stick cooking spray, as needed
Instructions
- Get the campfire going.
- Flatten 2 biscuits using your fingers or by rolling the cherry pie filling can over them.
- Lay one circle down and add 1 tablespoon of cherry pie filling into the center.
- Cut 1 marshmallow in half and place on top of the cherry pie filling. Next sprinkle some chocolate chips on top.
- Lay the other flattened biscuit on top and using the tines of a fork or your fingers, press the edges together all the way around.
- Turn it over and repeat, sealing the pie edge.
- Spray both sides of the pie iron with cooking spray.
- Gently place cherry pie in the pie iron. If a larger pie iron is used, more than one can be added at a time.
- Close lid and place on the fire over coals, not directly in the flames.
- Cook for approximately 10 minutes, turning every few minutes. Check often as time will vary depending on where the pie iron is placed in the fire.
Notes
Campfire tips: Make sure the campfire is hot before you start cooking these. It’s best to put the pie iron over the coals and not directly in the flames.
Experiment with these: What about including some of your favorite add-ins? Chopped nuts are nice in there or you could try butterscotch chips or mix some finely chopped fresh pineapple or apple into the pie filling. A little cinnamon sugar on the outside of the pies is delicious too.
Nutrition
Grab your pie iron and get ready to enjoy the most delicious campfire dessert you ever had. A pie iron cherry pie is one of the most wonderful treats you can make over a campfire.
These hobo pies only call for a few ingredients and they’re super-simple to prepare and cook. Kids love these and so will the grownups. Cooking over fire is the original cooking method, so get it going, grab the ingredients and get ready for a mouthwatering dessert everyone will rave about.
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