The Backcountry Cookie Recipe You Can Take Anywhere

Cookies are delicious, and any time is the perfect time to eat them.

Here’s a cookie recipe we make when we’re camping that’s easy to master and easy to make your own.

Basic Backcountry Cookies

Ingredients

• ½ cup brown sugar
• ¼ cup butter
• ¼ cup powdered milk (regular, soy, coconut, or Nido)
• 3 Tbs. water
• ¾ cup baking mix* (4 cups flour, 2 ½ Tbs. baking powder, ¼ cup powdered milk, 2 tsp. salt)*(We recommend mixing this ahead of time!)
• ½ cup white flour
• ⅛ tsp. salt

Directions

1. Cream sugar and butter together.
2. Mix milk powder and water and add to sugar-butter mixture
3. Combine flour, salt, and baking mix and add to other ingredients, working it into a stiff dough
4. Divide into nine pieces
5. Flatten and bake for about 10 minutes, using a twiggy fire

Makes nine 3-inch cookies or one GIANT cookie.

Variations

• Add a mixture of 1 ½ Tbs. brown sugar and ½ tsp. cinnamon over the cookies before baking
• Mix ½ cup of a mixutre of fruit, nuts, and seeds into the dough before baking
• Omit the salt and add 4 Tbs. peanut butter, 2Tbs. more flour, and ¼ cup chopped peanuts
• Replace powdered milk with ½ cup cocoa and 4 Tbs. water

(Read about twiggy fires and other backcountry baking techniques here.)

Happy munching!

Recipe courtesy of the NOLS Cookery.