Cooking muffins in a box

At Girl Guides this week we did something really exciting we learnt how to cook muffins using a cardboard box.

To do this you will need the following equipment:

- a cardboard box
- tinfoil
- a foil dish with charcoal (or instant charcoal BBQ)
- matches
- 4x empty tin cans (same size)
- muffin tray
- muffin mix


1. Cut the flaps off the cardboard box. The bottom of the box will be the top of the oven. Cover the inside of the box completely with tinfoil, placing the shiny side out.

2. Fill a tinfoil dish with charcoal briquettes ( or use an ''instant'' charcoal BBQ). Use some empty cans to hold with the muffins well above the charcoal. Put these around the outside of the tinfoil dish.

3 Light the charcoal and let it get nice and hot place your dish with the muffins on top of the cans once it has burnt down to the hot embers.

4 Put the cardboard box ''oven'' over the top to keep the heat in just like an oven. Prop up one end of the box with a stone to provide the air charcoal needs to burn-or cut air vents along lower edge of the oven.

The muffins didn't take much longer than a normal oven to cook and were very yummy to eat!