Comments on: HOWTO bake a cake inside the skin of an orange

By: An Infinitude of Tortoises

An Infinitude of Tortoises — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 05:16:00 +0000

This reminds me of one of my very favorite recipes of yore, from the 1967 edition of Fieldbook for Boys and Men, wherein the same technique, using either an orange skin or a hollowed-out onion hemisphere (I'd opt for the onion!), is applied to the cooking of an egg. "Poached Eggs à la Boy Scouts" is how I always think of it.

By: Heather C

Heather C — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:25:00 +0000

When I was in Girl Scouts, we made a cake type thing on the fire, but we used cleaned out cans, (like the ones used for canned beans or chili.) we filled the cans about half way with pie filling and then added a few tablespoons of dry cake mix on top. It’s pretty delicious if you have been eating camp food for a week or two.

By: UI_Student

UI_Student — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:28:00 +0000

Someone has no sense of humor.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:05:00 +0000

One box of cake mix makes a dozen or so oranges, so beware of that if you’re camping solo.

I don’t see the issue here…?

By: awjt

awjt — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:48:00 +0000

Why even eat. I mean at this point, it’s overkill.

By: Cory Trevor

Cory Trevor — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:09:00 +0000

Why do it at all?

By: awjt

awjt — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:36:00 +0000

I admire your practicality. Remind me never to let you do the cooking when we go camping.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:26:00 +0000

It would be easier to just eat a chocolate orange.

By: Miss Angela

Miss Angela — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:10:00 +0000

Tips from someone who’s actually done in a campfire recently: 3/4 full is way too much batter if you don’t want it to ooze out the sides. Try 1/2 full. Also, you can use the juice from the fruit in the batter itself for more orangey-chocolate deliciousness.

One box of cake mix makes a dozen or so oranges, so beware of that if you’re camping solo.

By: Natasha Aleman

Natasha Aleman — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:06:00 +0000

I tried that ages ago when I was in Girl Scouts, it wasn’t that successful. I ended up with a burnt, orange infused chocolate pudding. After that culinary mishap my troop stuck to making s’mores.

By: Florian Bösch

Florian Bösch — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:09:00 +0000

Demonstrating how some people mistake BoingBoing for Reddit

By: Danielle Pershouse

Danielle Pershouse — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:57:00 +0000

I did this at camp when I was a kid. We used white cake batter and it was delicious.

By: gsilas

gsilas — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:54:00 +0000

Why not do this in an oven? Why coals?
Is this supposed to be “steampunk” cooking?

By: awjt

awjt — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:37:00 +0000

Don’t forget to jam a hunk of dark chocolate down inside the batter before you bake it!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:29:00 +0000

I also did this on a camping trip about twenty-five years ago (the same camping trip where, among other things, I got my troop lost on a hike, set a field on fire, and cooked a chicken on a spit).

The part that I missed was keeping the top of the orange and using it as sort of a lid. The lower part of the cake was delicious. The upper part of the cake tasted like smoke and ashes.

By: Gekko_Gecko

Gekko_Gecko — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:12:00 +0000

And the point of that was……?

By: hadlockk

hadlockk — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:18:00 +0000

Waiting for the stuffed poblano pepper cake post.

By: TheOtherBen

TheOtherBen — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:12:00 +0000

I did this once in summer camp, about 20 years ago. You get a nice flavor from the orange (and probably the smoke) but the crumb-to-crust ratio obviously changes.

By: flappy

flappy — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 05:08:00 +0000

thank goodness! I thought this was gonna be another article about monks in Hell.

By: Blake Campbell

Blake Campbell — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:40:00 +0000

just look at it…oh wait, wrong fruit.

By: Richard Lack

Richard Lack — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:33:00 +0000

Don’t forget jello shots served inside an orange!

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:13:00 +0000

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4876696414_d3f62d18be.jpg

By: Frank Rose

Frank Rose — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:10:00 +0000

Did this last weekend in fact. It works wonderfully and the cake is deliciously orange-infused. We used the pulp and juice as a glaze for steaks after reducing it for awhile.