So-So Sprite Cake

Camp Cooking: the Black Feather Guide: Eating Well in the Wild is an amazing resource for those who are serious about camping and their food. The first four chapters focus on getting organized: cooking equipment, menu planning, how to cook with fires, stoves and ovens. There is even a chapter on how to pack your food (and having done lots of canoe camping this chapter is a must read). There are also lots of useful tips peppered throughout the book, such as how to keep cheese fresh, how to pack baked good (in an empty cereal box). I found this book well done, fun to read and very useful.

But what about the recipes? The first recipe I tried was Fred’s Sprite Cake. It’s super easy: you dump a can of peaches in a cake plan, sprinkle a cake mix on top (from a box)and then pour a can of sprite over the mix (yes, a can of sprite). When camping the cake is baked in a Dutch oven that you construct on the camping trip. It’s an interesting idea and I might try it one day but this time around I used my home oven.

The result: so-so. It kind of looked like a cake but it was as Michel put it “mushy”. Maybe it would be amazing on a camping trip when eating freshly baked cake is a rare thing, but here in my home, it was edible but not something I’d serve to visitors.