These fun and easy campfire eclairs are made with refrigerated biscuit dough, roasted over the fire, and filled with pudding, fruit, whipped cream—or whatever sweet combo you’re craving. A next-level treat that might just outshine s’mores!
We just returned from a camping trip with our scout family. They kids had a blast riding their bikes on the BMX track, soaring down the zip line, climbing rocks and exploring the wildflowers and nature around us.
For dinner we made some grilled chicken shawarma kabobs and served it with lavash bread and Shirazi salad (cucumber tomato salad). The parents AND the kids loved the food.
One of my favorite memories of the camping trip? These campfire eclairs. Because when you’re camping, you need a campfire dessert on a stick!
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Recipe highlights
- A Fun Twist on S’mores: Looking to shake up your campfire dessert game? These DIY eclairs are gooey, golden, and guaranteed to impress.
- Ridiculously Easy: Thanks to refrigerated biscuit dough, the “pastry” part is a breeze. Just wrap, roast, and fill!
- Choose-Your-Own-Filling Adventure: Chocolate pudding, whipped cream, berries, sprinkles, even toasted marshmallows. The possibilities are endless (and delicious).
- Tested & Approved: We’ve made these over many campouts and learned a few tricks along the way—get all our tips for perfectly cooked, easy-to-fill eclairs.
Ingredients you need
- Refrigerated package of biscuit dough: You can use any of your favorite brands of refrigerated biscuit dough.
- Chocolate pudding: If you are camping, those prepackaged pudding packs are a life saver. You can use any flavor: chocolate, vanilla and swirl.
- Strawberries: Fresh fruit make even the most decadent desserts a little bit healthy!
- Whipped cream: Again, if you are camping, just take a can of whipped cream with you.
- M&M candies: This is optional, but you can garnish your campfire eclairs with M&Ms, sprinkles or skip altogether.
Step-by-step directions
- Soak the sticks. You will need a big stick with the bark removed or a dowel that is at least 1-inch thick to make these campfire eclairs. Soak the stick in water for 30 minutes or so before using, because you don’t want it to burn in the fire. Think something as thick as a broom handle.
- Flatten dough. Unroll biscuit dough and stretch out and flatten each biscuit round in your hand.
- Wrap on stick. Stretch one biscuit dough over one stick, smoothing out any creases. For quick and even cooking, make sure dough is about ¼-inch thick.
- Cook dough. Place one biscuit dough covered stick over the flames and cook until evenly browned, about 5-10 minutes. Rotate stick continuously to prevent burning.
- Add fillings. Biscuit shell is done when all sides are browned and inside is cooked through. Carefully, remove biscuit shell from stick. Fill inside of each éclair with pudding and strawberries. Top with whipped cream and M&Ms.
Recipe tips and FAQs
If you find yourself making a lot of these eclairs for a scout troop, for example, you can get these sticks from your local hardware store. My boys’ boy scout troop has a batch of these sticks and they take it on camping trips regularly.
As I mentioned earlier, the dough of the eclair is refrigerated biscuit dough. We have also used instant pancake mix and add enough water until you have a firm dough that has the same texture as pizza dough. You will need about a tennis ball sized amount of dough for each campfire eclair.
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Ideally you will want to make sure the dough is about ¼-inch thick. If the dough is too thin, holes will show up and your eclair will fall apart. Too thick, and the outside will get cooked but the inside will remain raw. So do your best to spread an even layer of biscuit dough around the dowel.
You can fill up your eclair shells with a number of different fillings. Other options include:
- raspberries
- blueberries
- Nutella
- roasted marshmallows
- chocolate chips
This was such a popular dessert that I created my own homemade eclair dough recipe and put it in my new cookbook, The Camp & Cabin Cookbook. But, for that recipe, you’ll have to get the book! Refrigerated biscuit dough works great, but I’m seriously more partial to the homemade eclair recipe.
Special thanks to Lesley Kershaw Tennessen, aka The Dutch Oven Diva, for cooking from my cookbook and giving me permission to share the pictures from her campfire cooking class!
Storing/Freezing Instructions
TO STORE: These are best eaten fresh, but if you have extra cooked shells, keep them in an airtight container and store in a cooler or refrigerate for up to 4 days. You can fill them just before serving.
TO FREEZE: You can also freeze cooked shells. Transfer to a resealable bag or freezer safe container and freeze for up to 3 months.
You can fill your eclairs with almost anything. Some of our favorite fillings include chocolate or vanilla pudding, whipped cream, Nutella, peanut butter, fresh berries, marshmallow fluff, or even a scoop of ice cream if you’re at home!
Use a smooth, food-safe dowel or stick (like an untreated wooden broomstick). Soak it in water for 30–60 minutes before using to prevent burning and sticking. Make sure it’s clean and not chemically treated. You can also wrap a wad of foil around as stick.
Campfire Eclairs
Ingredients
- 1 refrigerated package of biscuit dough
- 14 oz chocolate pudding
- 1 pint strawberries sliced
- 2 cup whipped cream
- ½ cup M&M candies
Instructions
- Pre-soak your large sticks in water for 20 minutes to prevent burning.
- Open and unroll biscuit dough. Stretch out and flatten each biscuit round in your hand.
- Stretch one biscuit dough over one stick, smoothing out any creases. For quick and even cooking, make sure dough is about ¼-inch thick.
- Place one biscuit dough covered stick over the flames and cook until evenly browned, about 5-10 minutes. Rotate stick continuously to prevent burning.
- Biscuit shell is done when all sides are browned and inside is cooked through. Carefully, remove biscuit shell from stick.
- Repeat and cook other biscuit dough rounds.
- Divide evenly and fill inside of each éclair with pudding and strawberries.
- Divide evenly and top éclairs with whipped cream and M&Ms.
Notes
Nutrition
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Written by Laura Bashar
Hi, I’m Laura, a certified professional cook and cookbook author living in San Diego. I have been sharing my family’s favorite recipes inspired from all over the world since 2008. Let’s cook up something fun!
