Camp Chocolate Rollout Cookies
Four dry ingredients, oil, and water. No butter, no eggs, no cooler.
- calories
- 290
- weight
- 2.2 oz
- cal / oz
- 132
- protein
- 4 g
- serves
- 8, scales
- prep
- 15 min
- cook
- 12 min
- total time
- 27 min
- water
- 75 ml cold
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Dessert
- Snack
- Dutch oven
- Car camping
- Basecamp
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Dairy free
- Nut free
- Real dishes
- Pre-mix at home
- Shelf stable
- Actual cooking
Ingredients
| All-purpose flour | 225 g | about 1 3/4 cups |
|---|---|---|
| Sugar | 100 g | 1/2 cup |
| Cocoa powder | 3 tbsp | |
| Vegetable oil | 110 ml | carried in a leakproof bottle |
| Water | 5 tbsp |
Method
- Build a bed of coals and let the flames die down. You want steady heat, not fire.
- Dump the dry premix into a bowl or a gallon bag. Pour in the oil and water and work it until a soft dough comes together. Add water a teaspoon at a time if it stays crumbly.
- Flatten the dough about a quarter inch thick on a floured cutting board or the back of a clean pot lid. Cut it into squares with a knife.
- Line the dutch oven with parchment or a smear of oil. Lay the squares in without crowding.
- Lid on. Roughly 8 coals underneath and 16 on top for a 12-inch oven. Bake 8 to 12 minutes, rotating the oven and the lid a quarter turn every few minutes.
- Pull them when the edges firm up. They finish hardening off the heat, so err early.
Most cookie recipes fall apart in camp because they need cold butter and eggs. This one never did. Oil is the only fat, water is the only liquid, and both are shelf-stable, so the whole thing collapses into one dry premix and one bottle.
Oil dough behaves differently than butter dough. There is no creaming step and no air, so the cookies come out dense and short rather than puffed. That works in your favor here: they hold their shape on a rough surface, they tolerate uneven coal heat, and they survive a few days in a pack without crumbling to dust. Keep the coals split roughly two-thirds on the lid so the bottoms don’t scorch before the tops set.
Packing
Flour, sugar, and cocoa go in one zip bag, sifted together at home so there are no cocoa lumps to chase in camp. Oil rides in its own bottle inside a second bag.
Variations
- Stir a handful of dairy-free chocolate chips or dried cherries into the dough before rolling.
- No dutch oven: press the dough into a foil pan, cover with foil, and bake it on a grill grate over low coals as one slab, then break it apart.
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