A really easy dessert to make in the camp oven. You can jazz it up using your favourite cake recipe but I find it easier with a packet mix when in the bush.

Upside Down Pear Cake

Category Camp Oven Cooking

Author:Brad Lumb

A really easy dessert to make in the camp oven. You can jazz it up using your favourite cake recipe but I find it easier with a packet mix when in the bush.

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Ingredients

  • 2 x packet butter cake mix + required ingredients to add to mix
  • 1 large can diced pears - juice drained. Any canned fruit could be used such as apples, fruit salad or pineapple.
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar

Directions

  1. Mix up cake mix as per packet instructions.
  2. Grease and flour a cake tin, then sprinkle brown sugar on the bottom of the tin.
  3. Add pears then pour cake mix on top.
  4. Place cake tin in camp oven and bake on the Ozpig with coals/heat beads on top and bottom until cake springs back when pressed and a skewer comes out clean.
  5. Great served while still warm with cold custard!

Great bit of kit

We have the ozpig series 2 under a patio. Only just bought the house and the pig so we haven't got it in a specific final spot just yet. But having these extra offset and pieces helps keep smell and smoke (not that there is much using nice ironbark) definitely recommend this kit for use under a patio. Plus fast and easy postage made buying them easy as. 5 Stars

Big pig - loving it

We love our big pig . It’s so beautiful to sit around having the large opening and we are loving the smoker having started making beef jerky . We had a baby pig but this one is hands down the best

Series 2 - a genuine belter!

Series 2 - a genuine belter! Loving my series 2! During my "burning in" tests it really does belt out some heat, one of the primary reasons for the purchase. Guaging heat, I've cooked a couple of hamburgers and some stove top coffee all with great success. My only suggestion is when you've finally decided to treat yourself to a piggy, super treat yourself and get as many of the accessories as you want at the same time. You'll want to use em and I guarantee you'll go back and buy them anyway. No sell, thats a fact, so go the full hog! (thats a pun) Great service, fast post and I'm genuinely looking forward to the colder weather kicking in.

Exactly what I was looking for

- I was looking for something wood-fired and portable that I could take anywhere to boil water and cook a meal on and that could also be my home BBQ. The Pig is simpler and safer than a camp fire and a great back-up at home if everything goes down. I’ve only done BBQs so far and I’m enjoying the added wood-smoke taste. Looking forward to cooking more sophisticated meals down the track.