Campfire Cones

Campfire Cones: Fresh from the fire and too hot to handle!

Our entire immediate family just recently went camping together. We went to the California Redwoods alongside the Eel River. It was so beautiful. It was a perfect combination of dense forest, quiet & peaceful natural surroundings, mixed in with hot sunshine, cool & refreshing river water and good food! I enjoyed myself immensely.

Some danish Laurel made the day before
we went camping... to take along!

One of the main things our family does when we get together is eat! (Who doesn't, right!?) My oldest daughter has a food blog, if that's any indication of how seriously we take our food. (You can visit her @ www.californialaurel.blogspot.com)  She usually takes over in the kitchen which means we can't just 'BBQ some hot dogs'! Meals are usually serious affairs with the final results being scrumptious goodies we all rave about...until the next awesome tidbit she presents for our palate.

Laurel shopped for all the main food items we would consume while camping, while the rest of us were to bring along the "extra goodies".... brownies, popcorn, hot chocolate & marshmallows, cookies, candy, S'mores stuff, etc. I had seen this great idea on Pinterest last year, and thought we should try it. Since there was chocolate involved, it was a hit!

Ingredients:

Sugar cones

Marshmallows

Favorite candy assortment

You'll also need foil for the final step.

It's pretty simple:

Take a sugar cone and drop a mini marshmallow into the bottom. (Prevents possible burns if theres a hole or crack in the cone.) Next just layer broken bits of any assortment of your favorite candies, maybe more marshmallows, etc. We had a combination of Rolos, plain Hershey bars (left over from S'mores) Peppermint Patties, Mini Snickers bars, and topped it off with a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup. We then covered it in foil, sealing all the edges so we didn't lose any delicious-ness into the fire! We placed the cones top-up in the campfire or the grill grate, until all the chocolate melted and became a huge, gooey mess. (Yum!) That's it. Remove the foil and enjoy! Be careful. It's HOT!