How to celebrate a birthday while camping?

Passanie

We're going camping next weekend and a friend coming with us will have her birthday while we're up there. What's the best way to celebrate for her while we're up there? I suppose I could bring a cake of some sort, but packing it in the cooler might get tricky. Cupcakes in Tupperware, maybe? Any ideas?

hannikan

Yeah, I think moosie or jamers did cupcakes while camping. Maybe wait to frost them until you're up there. You could bring the kind that's in a bottle and you spray/squirt it on you wouldn't have to spread it. You could also do cookies if that would be easier. Only thing about that is that it would be hard to put a candle in them. Brownies maybe? GL!

Mandy6585

You could also do a pie if she's ok with that, then it won't take up room in the cooler... 

sm23

I wouldn't do cupcakes - seems way too easy to mess up on the go. I think one small cake, in one pan, would be easier to manage. You can premake or buy the frosting and keep it separate until you're ready to serve, then frost there. You could also bake some cookies in advance.

StefandTodd

We go every year for my best friend's birthday.  I always make cupcakes and brownies.  I bring the cupcakes in a cupcake caddy.  I'll admit, in the Summer heat, they sometimes melt.  But, eh.  It's camping.  We also have one of these ice cream makers: http://www.icecreamrevolution.com/

that we bring every year, and it's tradition that we make ice cream and eat cupcakes, sing, etc the first night of camping.  It's awesome.  And with an ice chest, all the stuff to make the ice cream holds up just fine, with the exception of having fresh, unmelted ice...which is why we always make it the first night.

Have fun, happy camping! 

ETA: (b/c I didn't read the responses before writing mine)....I make cupcakes every year, and frost them at home.  I keep them refrigerated until we're ready to go.  I often put an ice pack in the caddy to keep it cool inside to keep the frosting from melting too much, and pack them on the floor of the car, in the shade.  We always bring candles.  We don't worry about refrigerating them and eat them throughout the weekend.  I always try to come up with a creative twist on the cakes (one year, I filled half with blue, half with pink b/c she was pregnant and didn't yet know the sex, etc).  I don't know...really not *that* hard to bring cupcakes camping, IMHO.  However, brownies = still much easier  

hannikan

Ha, okay it was Stef, then! I knew someone talked about doing it.

dani2480

We went camping for DH's birthday one year, and I made brownies. I cut them into squares, and then stacked them in a little pyramid before serving, and placed a candle in the top brownie. Worked perfect!