Desserts, Cakes & Pies

Desserts

Ray's World Famous Bread Puddin'

aluminum foil for easy cleanup

Beat eggs and milk together and set aside.

Butter 4 slices of bread on one side and lay in single layer (butter-side down) in the bottom of a foil-lined 10- or 12-inch Dutch oven.

Spread half of the applesauce over the bread layer. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon. Put half of the brown sugar over the cinnamon and applesauce. Scatter all the raisins over the brown sugar. Cut the other four slices of bread diagonally and butter. Set them butter-side down over the raisins.

Spread the remainder of the applesauce over the bread. Put the rest of the brown sugar over the applesauce and sprinkle generously with cinnamon.

Pour the egg-and-milk mixture over and down between the slices of bread. Put the lid on the Dutch oven and let the bread soak up the egg-and-milk mixture for 30 minutes.

Bake covered for 45 minutes at 350 degrees (4 hot charcoal briquettes under the Dutch oven and 12 to 15 hot briquettes on top). Come back when the briquettes are burned out. Cool and slice. Serve with whipped cream, ice cream, or milk.

Serves 4 hungry Boy Scouts.

Cakes

Chocolate Pudding Cake

Line your 12 inch DO with tin foil. Mix the hot water, brown sugar, and cocoa in a small bowl, and then pour it into the bottom of the DO. Add some nuts, and about half the package of marshmallows on top. Mix the cake mix in another bowl as directed on the back of the box (add eggs, oil, and water and mix for 2 minutes). Pour the cake batter into the DO. Cook at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes, or until the cake mix is fluffy. When it's all done, turn the oven upside down onto of a serving dish, and peel off the tinfoil. The "pudding" should be a little bit sticky. Sprinkle some powdered sugar on the top. Put the remaining marshmallows on the top of the cake. Serve with vanilla ice cream! 

This is a great chocolate recipe that's hard to burn.

When Dutch oven is preheated, pour the whole can of peaches and juice into oven.  Then add the dry cake mix on top of the peaches.  Place several pieces of margarine on top, and sprinkle cinnamon over all.  Place lid on Dutch oven and bake about 45 minutes.  Recipe will give a layer of peaches with a cake covering.

Servings: 8

Variations:

1.  Stir the cake mix and peaches when placed in the Dutch oven to provide a more spongy layer of cake.

2.  Use canned apples instead of peaches, and add 1 tbsp cinnamon and 1 tsp allspice to the apples.

3.  Use canned cherries instead of peaches, and add more sugar with the cherries.

4.  Instead of the white cake mix, use yellow or spice cake mix.

5.  Use canned cherries and devils food cake mix.  Mix cake following the box instructions.

Melt butter in a 7 qt. or 12" Lodge Dutch oven. Add sugar, then pineapple, placing a cherry in the center of each pineapple slice. Prepare cake mix as directed and pour over pineapple. Bake at 350º for 25 minutes. Let Dutch oven cool with top off. To remove cake cut around sides and insert 2 or 3 paper plates covered with aluminum foil and flip.

Place butter and brown sugar in the Dutch oven and stir until well mixed.  Place the pineapple slices in the butter and sugar mixture in the bottom of the Dutch oven.

In  a separate bowl, mix the cake mix as directed on the package along with the egg.  Pour this batter over the pineapple in the Dutch oven, then put the lid on the Dutch oven and bake about 30-40 minutes.  Test the cake for doneness with a straw.

When the cake is done, remove the coals from the Dutch oven, remove the lid, and let the Dutch oven cool for about 10 minutes.  Using a large cutting board or piece of corrugated cardboard covered with wax paper, hold the board on top of the Dutch oven and invert the cake quickly.  This will allow the cake to fall on the board and the pineapple will remain on the top.  A safer way to support the cake when you invert it is to cut the cardboard into a round piece the same size as the Dutch oven is inverted, the cardboard can be held directly under the cake.

Servings: 8

Variations:

1.  Cherries may be placed with pineapple to provide color.

2.  Crushed pineapple may be used for more uniform toppings.

Pies