I've won a couple of dutch oven cookoffs, mostly for baking. I concur that you should put more coals on top than on the bottom. Cobblers are great in dutch ovens because the fruit on the bottom stops the crust from burning.
I regularly bake cakes in dutch ovens. The one I won with was a standard boxed chocolate cake with strawberry pie filling put in the bottom of the oven. By the time the cake is baked the strawberries have migrated throughout and a can of whipped cream draws in the final unbelievers.
My most cherished cooking award was for dutch oven baked beans which won the 'Best Vegetarian Dish' category. I can only attribute it to the mental weakness of vegetarians because they were filled with pork, bacon and sausage.

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