Ingredients
- 5 T Flour (bread flour is preferable due to the higher gluten content)
- 1/8 t Baking Powder (1/4 t if you want your ash cake to rise more)
- 1/8 t salt
- 5 t water
Directions (Ash Cakes)
- Mix all dry ingredients together
- Add water
- Knead in to dough (the consistency of pizza or bread dough before baking)
- Flatten dough into a flat patty or cake between 1/4″ and 1/8″ in thickness. Thinner is better. This can be accomplished by pushing the dough together between the palms of your hands
- Place flattened “cake” directly on the white hot coals of a campfire
- Allow to cook for about 30 seconds then lift cake to look at its underside (the side directly on the hot coals). The dough should be a golden brown color with the edges slightly darker or even a little black.
- Flip the cake over with a stick and allow the 2nd side to cook for about 40 seconds to 1 minute.
- Remove the ash cake from the coals by skewering it with a sharpened stick
- Remove any red hot coals that may have attached themselves to the ash cake and eat your golden brown ash cake.
Tip: After making your ash cake flat in Step #4 you can add a line of brown sugar of dried or fresh berries along the center of the ash cake, fold it in half (sealing the berries or brown sugar inside the ash cake) and then re flatten between you palms before going to Step #5
Directions (Stick Bread)
- Mix all dry ingredients together
- Add water
- Knead in to dough (the consistency of pizza or bread dough before baking)
- Roll dough between your hand to make a long “snake. You may need to add a little more water to the dough to make it slightly “sticky”
- Wrap the “snake” of dough tightly around a stick (the same type used to cook a hot dog)
- Cook the dough over a fire as you would a hot dog until it is golden brown
- Remove your stick bread from the stick and eat.