Enjoy Campfire Cooking With Pie Iron Recipes

One of the best things about campfire cooking is that you don’t have to be a great chef to create an unforgettable fireside dining experience. The magic of smoke, flame, and the venerable pie iron will help you turn ordinary ingredients into tasty meals when you take this Pie Iron Recipes cookbook on your next RV camping trip.

Cooking like hobos has never tasted better!

Easy pie iron recipes for the campfire chef

In this simple but essential campfire cooking recipe book written by author Darren Kirby, you’ll find the best pie iron recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Every meal chosen by Kirby makes the most of this under-utilized camping tool that’s also known as a “sandwich cooker” and “pudgie pie maker.”

Going far beyond the typical Hobo Pie fruit-filled desserts that we’re all familiar with, Pie Iron Recipes features dozens of easy, fun and creative ways to cook over an open flame.

From the “Egg in the Nest” skillet breakfast with hash browns and eggs, to “Spaghetti Sandwiches” for dinner, Kirby’s choice of campfire cooking meals demonstrate the endless ways you can get creative with a pie iron.

Kirby isn’t a chef by trade but he does know something about writing. As the author of several short fiction stories, the Wisconsin resident used his talent to create the 127-page cookbook.

Stepping away from his usual short story genre, his foray into the culinary world helped blend his love of writing with a lifelong appreciation of the great outdoors.

Spaghetti dinner in a pie iron.

Pie iron recipes

If these recipes have one big fault, it’s that Kirby filled it with a dizzying amount of delicious choices. To make it easier on users, we emailed and asked him to choose his favorites.

“I would say that I have two,” he shared. “Since I’m a lover of pizza, I always love making the Basic Pizza Pockets (Page 53). We’ll add pepperoni, sausage, onion, or whatever else sounds good that day. Just can’t go wrong in my opinion.”

Basic Pizza Pockets

Ingredients:

• Bread
• Pizza sauce
• Shredded cheese
• Butter

Directions:

1. Add butter and one slice of bread
2. Add pizza sauce and shredded cheese
3. Add another bread slice and add butter
4. Close pie iron and cook until golden brown

*Get fancy by adding your favorite toppings, like meats or veggies.

Pie irons can also be used to create spectacular desserts. “The other is my favorite dessert recipe: Peanut Butter Cup Melt (page 73),” he added. “I love the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups candy, and this is just a variation on that tasty treat . This is my go-to for absolute deliciousness.”

Peanut Butter Cup Melt

Ingredients:

• Bread
• Peanut butter
• Chocolate chips
• Butter

Directions:

1. Add butter and a slice of bread
2. Add peanut butter and chocolate chips
3. Add another slice of bread and butter
4. Close pie iron and cook until golden brown

Campfire cooking tips

Brie, cranberry, and walnut pie iron appetizer.

On a recent camping outing we put Kirby’s Pie Iron Recipes to the test. We made Spaghetti Sandwiches (Page 55), which is basically spaghetti and garlic bread all wrapped into a neat little package.

Other than having to boil pasta ahead of time, the recipe was effortless and the end result was appreciated by everyone sitting around the campfire.

Another time we created a tasty appetizer called “Brie in a Pastry” (Page 100) only instead of filling our pre-made pie pastry with sun dried tomatoes as the recipe calls for, we used cranberries and walnuts. Friends and family devoured it in minutes.

If your coals go out too soon, you can simply use a stove.

Here’s what we learned:

• Pie irons made of cast iron cook much better than the cheap aluminum ones.
• Buy several pie irons so you can cook a larger meal for many people.
• Prep your ingredients while the campfire is burning down into hot coals.
• Don’t be afraid to use plenty of butter. It helps the bready shell turn golden brown.
• Keep an eye on your pie irons–don’t let the food burn!
• If your coals go out before you’re meal is cooked, just finish it off over a camp stove.

You too can learn all the benefits of this campfire cooking method and take your meals to new and unique level! Find the cookbook on Amazon here.

See also: 10 RV-Friendly Meals To Cook While Camping

Rene Agredano

Rene Agredano and her husband, Jim Nelson, became full-time RVers in 2007 and have been touring the country ever since. In her blog, Rene chronicles the ins and outs of the full-timing life and brings readers along to meet the fascinating people and amazing places they visit on the road. Her road trip adventures are chronicled in her blog at LiveWorkDream.com.