Dutch Oven Chocolate Bombs
Biscuit dough wrapped around a chocolate kiss, fried in a dutch oven and shaken in powdered sugar.
- calories
- 320
- weight
- 3 oz
- cal / oz
- 107
- protein
- 4 g
- serves
- 8, scales
- prep
- 15 min
- cook
- 20 min
- total time
- 35 min
- water
- none
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Dessert
- Dutch oven
- Campfire coals
- Car camping
- Basecamp
- Vegetarian
- Real dishes
- Grab and go
- Needs a cooler
- Basic
Ingredients
| Refrigerated biscuit dough | 1-2 tubes | keep it cold until it goes in the oil |
|---|---|---|
| Chocolate kisses | 1 bag | one per biscuit piece |
| Cooking oil | 1 bottle | enough for an inch in the oven |
| Powdered sugar | 1/2 cup |
Method
- Pour the powdered sugar into a zip-top bag and set it aside.
- Build a bed of coals and put the dutch oven directly on them. Add an inch of oil and bring it to about 375F. A scrap of dough should sizzle right away and float.
- Unwrap a kiss. Tear off a piece of biscuit dough, flatten it in your palm, set the kiss in the middle, and pinch the dough closed all the way around. Any gap will leak.
- Lower a few into the oil at a time. Crowding the oven drops the temperature and you get grease-logged dough.
- Turn them once. Pull them when they are light brown, three minutes or so, and drain them on paper towel.
- Once they are cool enough to handle, drop them in the sugar bag and shake.
This is a car-camping dessert and it stays one. Refrigerated dough needs a cooler and hot oil needs a heavy pot, so there is no trail version worth carrying. The dutch oven earns its weight here: cast iron holds temperature when cold dough hits the oil, which is the whole problem with frying over a fire.
The seal is the part that goes wrong. Chocolate melts before the dough browns, and any pinch you left open turns into a slick of sugar in the oil that burns and taints the next batch. Pinch hard, fry a few at a time, and sugar them warm so it sticks.
Packing
Dough and kisses ride in the cooler; warm dough is impossible to seal and chocolate melts through the bag. Oil, powdered sugar, and the bag travel in the kitchen box. Bring a slotted spoon and paper towels.
Variations
- A square of dark chocolate or a spoonful of peanut butter works in place of the kiss.
- Cinnamon mixed into the powdered sugar covers up uneven browning.
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