Let’s say you have a niiiiice batch of chocolate chip cookie dough waiting to turn into warm and chewy chocolate chip cookies. It’s HOT outside, and turning on the oven would make everything worse. Well, why not use the hot summer sun as your source of heat and… say… your car as the oven? It’s been done!!

Don’t tell me that you’ve never had the slightest urge to cook or bake something outside when it’s 100* out. After all isn’t there a saying that says that it’s so hot you can cook an egg on the sidewalk? I think we should change it to it’s so hot you can bake cookies (chocolate chip cookies please!) in your car!

Nicole over at Baking Bites decided to take that to heart and bake them in her car. In short, you need parchment paper, a cookie sheet (see? just like baking regular cookies in a regular oven!) and potholders to make sure the hot pan doesn’t ruin your dash. It took about 2.5 hours in 100* weather outside (180* inside the car in direct sunlight over a short period of time) for the cookies to be done; there is no “golden brown and delicious” visual aspect to these sun-baked cookies due to the lack of caramelization of the sugars; and most importantly, they smelled and tasted deeelicious!!

Let me know if you try this. It doesn’t look like I’ll be able to do this in the next 10 days as predicted by weather.com if I want to follow Nicole’s 100* outside guideline:

			High / Low (°F)	Precip. %
Tonight Jul 21		Mostly Clear	67°	0 %
Wed Jul 22		Partly Cloudy	84°/67°	0 %
Thu Jul 23		Partly Cloudy	85°/68°	0 %
Fri Jul 24		Partly Cloudy	83°/67°	0 %
Sat Jul 25		Mostly Sunny	82°/68°	0 %
Sun Jul 26		Sunny	82°/67°	0 %
Mon Jul 27		Sunny	81°/66°	0 %
Tue Jul 28		Sunny	79°/65°	0 %
Wed Jul 29		Sunny	79°/65°	0 %
Thu Jul 30		Sunny	78°/64°	0 %
Last Updated Jul 21 08:15 p.m. PT

But August is rolling in VERY quickly and I *may* have a chance then. How do you think brownies will cook in this manner..? an entire CAKE?!