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Favorite Recipes: Happy Camper Cake!

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  CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH BUTTERCREAM FROSTING Homemade birthday cake without an oven? Absolutely!   When we celebrated Hamlet's 6 5th birthday this year, we made him a special "canned ham" style cake. For those who are new to our story, we  made a tiny replica of our solar powered, vintage 1957 Sportcraft travel trailer which we've lived and traveled in full-time since the fall of 2012.  See more about  our story here . Typically, the cake takes about 6 minutes to mix by hand and 15-20 mins to bake. Hutch demonstrates a campfire baking process in our Gourmet Camp Cooking and Baking video (at 27 mins in). If you bake it over a 2 burner stove, you just need to bake it in between the 2-burners (set to low) and keep it turning every few minutes. Add some heat to the top every so often with a torch so that it bakes from the top down, then finish off the middle by moving it over to one of the burners and turn the heat up a bit. It takes some practice, but it's well...