Okay all you happy campers out there – I have to share this campfire treat that is so much better than marshmallows (and I love me a few marshmallows burned over a campfire!).
We were at Young Women Beehive camp last week and roasted wieners wrapped in Pillsbury dough strips for dinner. I thought they tasted so much better than regular hot dogs! Anyway, we had lots of strips of dough left over, so Sis. F. went and got the strawberries we were going to have for breakfast, and invented this:
Strawberries wrapped in dough and roasted over the fire. They were soooo delicious! They best way I can describe it would be: it tastes like a little bite of warm strawberry pie on a stick. You have got to try this!!!When I went camping with my family a few days later, we made them too.
Here’s how to create these tasty morsels:
Cut your dough in strips (ignore the Pillsbury lines in the dough). I believe it was the Crescent Rolls we used. Wrap your strawberry well. We learned a few tips as we went along:– strawberries like to turn on the stick as they get heated, so use some dough to anchor the top and bottom of each strawberry to the stick.
– pinch the ends of your dough to other dough on your strawberry, or it may unwrap as it cooks.
Roasting time depends on how hot your fire is, or how high you hold it. But it cooks pretty quickly. Once the dough isn’t doughy, it’s done!
Give it a moment to cool down and then enjoy!!!
And if you don’t have dough, even just plain roasted strawberries was delicious. And so are grapes, and pickles – just not together! 
We found these dollar store sticks worked best for the strawberries because you could easily bend the wire ends to fit your strawberry. Having it anchored on two sides was so much better for roasting, but a little trickier to wrap the dough around.
I love a little charcoal on my campfire cooking!
If you weren’t a happy camper before, you will be now!!!
Or maybe you don’t have to camp at all – backyard fire pits are perfect for roasting these beauties too! Enjoy!!!
(Edited to add: This year we discovered that roasted cherries are delicious too – either with the pit, or not. My guy liked to cut a cherry in half and remove the pit then embed it inside a marshmallow, and roast it that way. The somewhat sour cooked cherry mixed with the sweet marshmallow was a fantastic flavour combination.
Another new treat was roasted mandarin orange segments. They don’t need long over the fire but the outside turned crisp, and the inside tasted like sweet warm thick juice. Let it cool down a minute before you bite into its deliciousness!)
