Easy Camping Cake (With Real Campfire)
Easy camping cake recipe and tutorial, homemade with simple ingredients. Decorated with chocolate frosting, candies and even has a real campfire.
Servings: 15 People
Calories: 14kcal
Ingredients
- 2 Coca cola cake Round, 8x2 each
- 4 cups Chocolate buttercream icing
- ½ cups Green buttercream icing
- ½ cup Blue buttercream icing
- 2 Graham crackers
- 5-6 Soft caramel candies
- ¼ cup Whoppers Or your choice of round chocolate candy balls
- ¼ cup Red candy balls
- 1 cup Oreos Roughly chopped up
- 2 Kit Kats Broken up into rough shaped sticks
Instructions
- Bake cakes and allow them to cool fully.
- While cakes are baking and cooling, prepare the chocolate icing plus green and blue frosting.
- Place one cake on cake stand.
- Use a spatula to spread icing on top.
- Place the second cake on top of the icing.
- Use a spatula to frost the entire cake in a rustic design. You don't have to ice smoothly at all.
- Arrange the 2 graham crackers to make a tent.
- Buy or make trees and camping sign out of cardstock paper. Stick a lollipop stick behind them. Push the base of the lollipop stick into a chewy caramel candy and place them on top of the cake and around the cake board, using a dab of icing.
- Arrange some Whopper candy balls around the trees and sign.
- Fill a piping bag with green icing and attach Wilton star tip # 21 and pipe grass around the base of the trees. This will also hide the caramel candy. Also toss some crushed Oreos and crushed Kit Kats to create the illusion of dirt and stones.
- Stick a few red candy balls randomly on the green buttercream for a pop of color.
- To make the fire pit, arrange the broken Kit Kat pieces in a small circle. Leave it hollow inside. Push 3 small stick candles in the middle. I had to trim the candles with scissors to make them the same height as the fire pit.
- Use a spatula and blue icing to create lakes on the cake board.
- Arrange some Whopper candy balls around the lake and sprinkle some crushed Oreos and crushed Kit Kats.
- If you have fish and duck candies/ sprinkles, push those partially into the blue icing.
- Buy or make a small boat out of thick brown paper and place that on the blue frosting.
- Sprinkle crushed Oreos around the base of the cake and enjoy.
Notes
- Don't decorate a warm cake.
- Make sure to extend the decoration to the cake board to complete the overall scene.
- I didn't add a cake filling but you can add ganache or jam if you like.
- I made the cardboard decorations like the trees and camp sign but you can also buy them online or make them with fondant.
- Read additional tips and variations above.
- Leftovers can be stored in a sealed container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
Calories: 14kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 1g | Sodium: 3mg | Potassium: 1mg | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 1IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 1mg | Iron: 1mg