Dashboard Chocolate Chip Cookies

My friend recently posted a link to one of my favorite blogs, Baking Bites, about an experiment involving her car dashboard and chocolate chip cookies.

I missed this entry when she first posted it but it’s still a timely experiment! Nicole prepped her car first by parking it in full sunlight and lining the dashboard with pot holders to protect it.

Using parchment paper, a cookie sheet and a specific chocolate chip cookie dough recipe (included in the post linked above) that requires refrigeration so it can be cut into even slices, she successfully baked a batch of cookies in her car!

She also set an oven thermometer on the dash and was able to see that the interior of her car got up to 180 degrees and took about two and a half hours to bake the cookies.

They didn’t brown up like cookies typically do in an oven, but they did bake and were apparently so delicious they were gone in minutes!

I would actually really love to try this! Initially I wondered about the egg used in the dough and leaving it in a hot but-not-oven-hot environment for so long, but as long as the cookies reach an internal temperature of 160 degrees they should be ok. Another thing that makes me hesitate is that in my city neighbors and houses are right on top of each other — I can only imagine the looks I’d get!

And let’s not forget: Chocolate chip cookie-scented car. I’d be willing to do more driving if I could get my car to smell that way all the time!

Would you try this?

[image: flickr]