Camp Fire Cupcakes
These Camp fire Cupcakes are a fun summer treat. What an adorable dessert to take along for a camping trip or camping themed party!
Why Camp Fire Cupcakes?
My family absolutely loves camping and it’s an activity I grew up with. We would often spend a few weeks in the summer camping in Ontario Provincial Parks as a kid. Sometimes my grandparents and my aunt and uncle join us and make it an extended family affair.
My favourite part of camping was, and still is, the campfire. Sure. Hiking in the woods down long trails or swimming in a cool fresh water lake is great. Nothing beats sitting by the fire in the dark though and so, for me, the campfire truly speaks summer more than anything else. Which makes these Camp Fire Cupcakes basically the most perfect summer party treat.
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Camp Fire Cupcakes
Makes 12 cupcakes
Ingredients:
1 box of French Vanilla cake mix
1 C whole milk
3 large eggs
1/2 C unsalted sweet cream butter
1 C graham cracker crumbs
1/4 C cocoa powder
Pretzel rods
Mini marshmallows
Tooth picks
Frosting ingredients:
1 C unsalted sweet cream butter
2 C powder sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3-5 TBSP Heavy whipping cream
yellow and orange gel food coloring
1 large piping bag fitted with a medium star tip
Directions:
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners
In a standing mixer, combine cake mix, butter, milk and eggs and mix on medium speed until combined
Scoop batter 3/4 of the way into the cupcake liners and bake for 21 minutes
Once done, pull out and set aside to cool
Using a standing mixer, combine the butter, powder sugar vanilla and heavy whipping cream.
Mix until stiff peaks form
Scoop some frosting into 2 bowls, 1 for the yellow and 1 for the orange frosting, leaving some frosting in the main bowl to frost the base of the cupcakes
Directions for decorating:
In a small bowl, combine the graham cracker crust and coco powder, mix until combined
Add 2 mini marshmallows to each tooth pick (about 12) and set aside
Using a butter knife, frost the top of the cupcake using frosting left from the main bowl
Once frosted, dip the cupcake into the coco and graham cracker mixture
Using a spoon, scoop some yellow frosting into 1 side of the piping bag and scoop the orange frosting into the other side
In the middle of the cupcake pipe frosting to create your flame
Cut the mini pretzel sticks in half and place around the “fire” about 4-5 sticks
Add your marshmallow sticks to the top and enjoy!
Camp Fire Cupcakes
Ingredients
- Camp Fire Cupcakes
- Makes 12 cupcakes
- Ingredients:
- 1 box of French Vanilla cake mix
- 1 C whole milk
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 C unsalted sweet cream butter
- 1 C graham cracker crumbs
- 1/4 C coco powder
- 1 bag of mini pretzel rods
- 1 bag of mini marshmallows
- 1 package of tooth picks
- Frosting ingredients:
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter
- 2 C powder sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3-5 TBSP Heavy whipping cream
- yellow and orange gel food coloring
- 1 large piping bag fitted with a medium star tip
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a cupcake pan with cupcake liners
- In a standing mixer, combine cake mix, butter, milk and eggs and mix on medium speed until combined
- Scoop batter 3/4 of the way into the cupcake liners and bake for 21 minutes
- Once done, pull out and set aside to cool
- Using a standing mixer, combine the butter, powder sugar vanilla and heavy whipping cream.
- Mix until stiff peaks form
- Scoop some frosting into 2 bowls, 1 for the yellow and 1 for the orange frosting, leaving some frosting in the main bowl to frost the base of the cupcakes
- Directions for decorating:
- In a small bowl, combine the graham cracker crust and coco powder, mix until combined
- Add 2 mini marshmallows to each tooth pick (about 12) and set aside
- Using a butter knife, frost the top of the cupcake using frosting left from the main bowl
- Once frosted, dip the cupcake into the coco and graham cracker mixture
- Using a spoon, scoop some yellow frosting into 1 side of the piping bag and scoop the orange frosting into the other side
- In the middle of the cupcake pipe a small star to create your flame
- Cut the mini pretzel sticks in half and place around the "fire" about 4-5 sticks
- Add your marshmallow sticks to the top and enjoy!
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
Liz Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys cooking and baking, food photography, and reading.
First impression : These campfire cupcakes are so cool. Then I looked at the rest of the fun cupcake pictures on the page. I haven’t even read all the ingredients. It’s dessert and a craft project all in one.
Fabulous, in fact ingenious is perhaps a better term for these adorable cupcakes.
Wow,what a job i love them !
These look all kinds of awesome! Must remember these for the next summer birthday!
I am thinking sprinkle smoked sea salt for that campfire taste!
Hi! Awesome cupcakes. What size piping tip did you use for these please?
I feel like you could also go fall theme and do pumpkin spice cake mix and cream cheese type frosting
What icing tip did you use to get the flame? Thanks!
I really loved making these! They are a really tasty dessert!
Super cute! Really perfect for summer campfires. Thank you for sharing this! I can’t wait to try making them :)
The Coco supposed to be unsweetened cocoa powder? Thank you!
Yes!
Hi I Was Wondering What size piping tip you used on these cupcakes.! 🤓
Made your campfire cupcakes and they are adorable. One question…you list a cake mix for the cupcakes but when I purchased a yellow cake mix, it indicated on the box to use 3 eggs and 1/4 vegetable oil. I followed your recipe, but why did you replace the vegetable oil with butter and milk for your cupcakes? Just wondering what would happen if I just followed the cake mix instrux
Swapping the vegetable oil and water for milk and butter just results in a more flavourful cake, you can prepare as the box says and they would be fine too.
@Liz Lampman, Is the butter for the cake just softened at room temperature or melted?
The butter should be melted. (I apologise, this recipe is very poorly written and needs an update asap!)