Car Cookies Yummmm...???

[picunurse]

Comcast doesn’t have linking, so I have to quote the whole story, sorry.
I couldn’t find the story on The Union Leader site.

N.H. Woman Bakes Cookies on Dashboard
BEDFORD, N.H. - Blistering heat was just what Sandi Fontaine needed to bake cookies for her co-workers _ on the dash of her Toyota Rav4.

With temperatures soaring Wednesday, Fontaine placed two trays of cookie dough on the dashboard, shut the doors and retreated inside to her air conditioned office.

“My husband wanted me to run some errands this morning,” said Fontaine, who works at Baldwin and Clarke Corporate Finance. “I said, ‘I can’t. I’m baking cookies.’”

Fontaine first tested her dashboard oven three years ago. She said anyone can do it; the only requirement is for the outside temperature to be at least 95 degrees, so it will rise to about 200 degrees in the car. Temperatures in the area reached the mid to upper 90s on Wednesday.

“Mrs. Fields has nothing on Sandi,” co-worker Brian Champigny said of the cookie company.

Though Thursday was supposed to be cooler, Fontaine said she’ll still enjoy the benefits of her culinary effort.

“When you open the door to that car,” she said, “it’s like, oh my God. It’s a wonderful smell.”

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Information from: New Hampshire Union Leader, http://www.unionleader.com
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[Green_Cymbeline]

I wonder if that really works… can you really bake cookies in 200 degrees? Because whenever I bake cookies, the recipe calls for the oven to be set at 350 degrees. I doubt the cookies would cook all the way at only 200 degrees…

[Mangetout]

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work; they’re not going to bake brown that way, but they could certainly bake and turn crispy. The lower temperature is presumably compensated by the longer cooking time.

[phall0106]

Wouldn’t that be Cookies with a new car smell?

[934spe]

Now, can you bake cookies and DRIVE at the same time? That would be using your time more efficently…

[FatBaldGuy]

@934spe

Now, can you bake cookies and DRIVE at the same time? That would be using your time more efficently…

I suppose you could, if you don’t mind driving with the windows up and no A/C or vents, so that the 200 degree temp could be maintained.

I don’t think I’d like to try it.

[pbbth]

What about foods that aren’t cookies? Could you bake chicken or something in your car? What about bread? I suppose making a meat product this way wouldn’t be the smartest thing you could ever do, but interesting none the less.