5 Most-loved camp desserts

Nothing beats a sweet treat after a delicious dinner. At Sugar Bay Resort, a holiday camp for kids and teens between the ages of seven and seventeen, the chef and his kitchen team love treating their campers to tantalizing, traditional camp desserts.

Often kids dislike eating all their veggies and having a proper meal for dinner. The trick is to reward them for eating healthily. If you spare at least thirty minutes in your day to prepare one of these decadent camp desserts, you will surely have their plates cleaned out. 

Sugar Bay’s camp chef, Joy, shared a few recipes of the camper’s most-loved desserts;

1. Peppermint Tart

This dessert is a traditional South African dessert and the camper’s favourite.

Quantities of ingredients are not included since they differ according to the number of servings being prepared.

All you need is a Peppermint Crisp chocolate, dessert cream, Tennis biscuits and canned caramel.

Begin by laying a baking tray with the Tennis Biscuits. Combine the dessert cream and the canned caramel. Apply the dessert cream and caramel combination over the layer of biscuits. Add another layer of Tennis biscuits over the caramel and dessert cream combination. Grate the Peppermint Crisp chocolate and generously sprinkle over the top biscuit layer. Leave to set in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

2. Cheese Cake

 

An irresistibly creamy cheese cake is the second best dessert at Sugar Bay Resort.

Quantities of ingredients are not included since they differ according to the number of servings being prepared.

You will need cream cheese, cream, butter, Tennis biscuits, lemon juice and lemon zest.

Melt the butter and crush the Tennis biscuits. Combine the two and pat down on a tray to form a biscuit base for the cheese cake. Combine the cream cheese and the cream with lemon juice. Spread the mixture over the biscuit base and bake at 150 degrees Celsius for 25 minutes. Allow to cool, grate lemon zest over the cheese cake and then refrigerate.

3. Malva Pudding

 

Stickiness and moisture could never be better anywhere else than in a malva pudding. This heart-warming dessert leaves campers licking their dessert bowls all the time.

Quantities of ingredients are not included since they differ according to the number of servings being prepared.

You need cream, milk, vanilla essence, butter, jam, white vinegar, salt, sugar, cake flour and bicarbonate soda to whip up this delight.

Mix the wet ingredients; cream, milk, vanilla essence, butter, jam and white vinegar together in a bowl. In another bowl, combine all the dry ingredients; salt, sugar, cake flour and bicarbonate soda. Combine the wet and dry mixture and bake at 180 degrees Celcius for 30 minutes. Serve with chilled vanilla custard.

4. Brownies and Ice-Cream

 

Holiday camps at Sugar Bay aren’t festive without brownies and ice-cream.

Quantities of ingredients are not included since they differ according to the number of servings being prepared.

Flour, sugar, cocoa powder, 2 eggs, and salted butter is all you need.

Combine all the dry ingredients; flour, sugar and cocoa powder in one bowl. In another bowl, combine all the wet ingredients; the eggs and salted butter and add to the dry ingredients. Combine the wet and dry mixtures and beat until smooth and lump-free. Bake in the oven at 150 degrees Celcius for 25-35 minutes. Serve with vanilla ice-cream.

5. Chocolate Mousse

For all those chocolate-loving campers, chocolate mousse is certainly a dessert that gets their mouths watering hours before it’s even served.

Quantities of ingredients are not included since they differ according to the number of servings being prepared.

Simple and common ingredients are required; dark chocolate, egg whites, water, and cream.

Melt the dark chocolate over a boiler, then add water and cream and combine mixture. Fold in egg whites and leave the combination to set in the refrigerator for 3o minutes. Serve with chilled whipped cream.

All Sugar Bay's camp desserts are so traditional and comforting in the sense that, campers feel like they’re at home every time dessert is being served. With all these delicious dessert recipes, you can make your kids feel like they’re at camp, even when you’re just encouraging them to finish their veggies at home. 

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