How To Bake Cookies on Your Car's Dashboard

  • June 12, 2009
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Craving cookies but don’t want to turn your kitchen into a sauna? Don’t fret. Just turn your car into an oven!

You Will Need

  • Nonstick cooking spray
  • A cookie sheet
  • Cookie dough
  • A plastic or silicone spatula
  • Plastic wrap
  • A car
  • A thermometer that reads temperatures up to 250 degrees Fahrenheit
  • A potholder or towel
  • Patience
  • An eggless dough recipe
How To Bake Cookies on Your Car's Dashboard: Prepare the cookie sheet

Step 1: Prepare the cookie sheet

Spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray. If you’re using premade cookie dough, cut it into ¼-inch thick slices and place them on the sheet about 2 inches apart. If using homemade dough, roll pieces into 1-inch balls and drop them onto the cookie sheet.

Because of the low baking temperature, the eggs in the cookie dough may not cook completely. To reduce your risk of salmonella infection, use dough with pasteurized egg whites, or search online for eggless dough recipes.

How To Bake Cookies on Your Car's Dashboard: Cover and refrigerate

Step 2: Cover and refrigerate

Use a spatula to flatten the cookies slightly. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until you’re ready to hit the road.

How To Bake Cookies on Your Car's Dashboard: Park your car

Step 3: Park your car

Find a very sunny spot to park your car in during the hottest part of the day, which is usually from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. during the summer. Let it sit in the sun for at least 15 minutes.

The temperature outside must be at least 95 degrees Fahrenheit in order for the inside of the car’s temperature to bake the cookies.

How To Bake Cookies on Your Car's Dashboard: Set out cookie sheet

Step 4: Set out cookie sheet

Place the cookie sheet on the dashboard, and put a thermometer next to it so you can look through the windshield to check your car’s temperature. The inside of the car should reach at least 180 degrees Fahrenheit.

Set the cookie sheet on a potholder or towel to prevent damage to the dashboard.

How To Bake Cookies on Your Car's Dashboard: Be patient

Step 5: Be patient

Be patient. You must wait anywhere from two to three and a half hours for your cookies to cook completely. Don’t open the car doors until at least two hours have passed. You don’t want any heat to escape.

How To Bake Cookies on Your Car's Dashboard: Check the cookies

Step 6: Check the cookies

After two hours have passed, or when the cookies look baked, open the door to check on them. If they stick to the sheet when you try to lift them with a spatula, they’re not done yet. Let them cook for another 20 minutes or so. If they come up easily, the edges are firm and the center is no longer gooey, they’re done!

The finished cookies will be paler than those baked in a conventional oven at a higher temperature.

How To Bake Cookies on Your Car's Dashboard: Remove and eat

Step 7: Remove and eat

Carefully remove the cookies from the car, and watch them disappear!

In the 1930s, Ruth Graves Wakefield accidentally invented chocolate chips at the Toll House Inn, located in Whitman, Mass.

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Comments (7)

Kurt_B

Very nicely done! Good videography and editing. The 50s-style housewife is cute. Pretty girl. However, this may not be possible in places like Washington State.

over 2 years ago by Kurt_B

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maggiema

Very cool. Nice for a camping trip. You can leave the car and go hiking for two hours and come back to a nice treat.

over 2 years ago by maggiema

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bitchinkitchen

I thought it was a joke at first, but this is awesome!

over 2 years ago by bitchinkitchen

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vonoxhun

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over 2 years ago by vonoxhun

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Jacob_Ackerman

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over 2 years ago by Jacob_Ackerman

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KC_Ifeanyi

neato... lovin' the june beaver-esqueness

about 1 year ago by KC_Ifeanyi

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DWRead

If the windows are completely closed, they can blow out if the temperature gets high enough. You can accomplish the same with a foil-lined box and a glass lid, also known as a solar cooking box!

about 1 year ago by DWRead

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