Car Baking?

On a nice hot day in August there are many things to do.  When you live in a home without air conditioning, baking is not something you attempt when the heat index is already at 100 degrees.  So what do you do when your children are "dying" for chocolate chip cookies?  I happen to have purchased a tub of chocolate chip cookie dough from a local fundraiser sometime ago.  I rolled the dough into cookies and stuck them in a freezer bag to pull out a few when we felt like "fresh baked" cookies.  Spoiling my children with actually baked cookies instead of Chips Ahoy or the like has sort of back fired a bit on me here and there.  Every time they "have" to have them, so do I.  Super simple way to add the LBS on there!  Luckily for me, those cookies are almost finished.  By the way, they must be the most awful cookie I have ever tasted, but yet, somehow I continue to eat a few every time we bake them.  I much prefer the Chips Ahoy, or better yet, some hot out of the oven Nestle Toll House cookies.  Oh, right, back on track....

Months ago I saw a pin on Pinterest about baking cookies in your car.  That's right, in your car.  You can view the Baking Bites blog here.  Nicole Weston even shares her car chocolate chip recipe with you!!  A recipe that I must try next time, thanks Nicole!  

The kids and I prepped the cookie sheet with a Silpat (silicone baking sheet) just in case things were going to be sticky.  I had no idea how this experiment of baking in the car was going to go, and I didn't want to have to scour my cookie sheet.  We placed the chilled cookie rounds on the sheet and went to the car dashboard.

We started with the cookies on the front dashboard since the most sun was hitting the front of the car.  It was HOT in the car, but how hot...I have no idea, this wasn't a true scientific experiment, sorry.

Anyway, the cookies took sometime to bake, about 4 hours give or take 10 or 15 minutes.  I did move them to the back of the car for the last 1 hour.  The sun had moved and I thought maybe it would help "burn" them a little...crisp them up.  Didn't work, oh well.  

Here are the cookies at about the 3/4 finished point.

Eww...see all that oil, no wonder I think these cookies are awful.

I never did get an after shot of the finished product, the kids and their friends really just scooped up the cookies as soon as I said they were done.  

Good thing we were just hanging poolside and didn't have to go anywhere.  My children loved the finished result.  The cookies never got crispy and stayed pretty gooey, they were cooked enough and the kids said they tasted great...me, I think they are still awful, but I ate a few...haha!  Bonus, the car did smell yummy for a few hours. 

Yup, that's Pintersting!