Bailey's Marshmallows

I've seen this pinned on Pinterest several places, but there's really no recipe so I just went for it. Enjoy a bonfire and impress your friends with a new way to make s'mores. These are delicious alone, but they are incredibly delicious in a s'more.


Ingredients:
-Marshmallows
-Baileys 

Soak the marshmallows in a small amount of Bailey's. I did this is a small tupperware container, about six marshmallows in about an inch of Bailey's. The marshmallows will get soft and sticky, it was easiest to just stab them with the roasting stick than it was to attempt to pick them up.

Roast in the fire like you would any other marshmallow, these will caramelize on the outside. 

Build into a s'more.

These were so good! The marshmallow will bubble up and caramelize due to the alcohol in the Bailey's so on top of marshmallow goodness and Bailey's flavor there is also a slight hint of caramel. This is such a simple way to make fall bonfires an extra special time.

Every once in a while someone stops by and points out to me that marshmallows aren't "vegetarian". I would like to direct you to a really great discussion on the "gray areas" of vegetarianism/veganism over at The Tipping Point. In the meantime, I will continue to enjoy the occasional marshmallow or Guinness filled cupcake, because I am not vegan. Cheers! 

Campfire Orange Cakes

I have to start off saying this was not one of our more successful recipes. It looked like a really cute and fun idea, but ours didn't work quite as well as expected. The top of the cake inside the orange was cooked, but inside was pretty runny still. The flavor was good, you really could taste a good amount of orange through the cake. I think this may have worked if we cooked it for a little longer, but we did it for 20 minutes like the recipe said, and there was really no way to tell if the inside was cooked without unwrapping it and eating the top first.

I've seen this recipe a few times on pinterest, and I used the instructions here from ljc.

Ingredients:
-Orange
-Chocolate cake mix (plus eggs and oil)

Cut off the top of the oranges and hollow out the inside.

Make the cake mix according to package directions and
fill in the oranges.

Wrap in foil and put on the sides of the campfire.
Cook for 20 minutes.

Unwrap, take the top of the orange off and eat with a fork.

I'll probably be trying some more campfire recipes, I really like that concept, but probably one that doesn't need anything to cook.