Daycare kids love cookies baked in a hot car
Registered early childhood educator follows CBC Windsor experiment with cooking inside a hot car
As a way to show exactly how hot things can get inside a locked car, CBC Windsor challenged chef Johnny Oran to cook a meal inside a CBC van.
His menu included trout, eggs and cookies. After a long, hot day of waiting, the results were mixed. But without a doubt, his chocolate chip cookies were a hit.
The next day, Leslie Pingle, a registered early childhood educator, decided to try the same experiment with her kids at the Yellow Brick House home daycare.
She used the same dough for both cookies, using an oven and a black car parked in front of the daycare as a heat source.
The cookies baked in the car spent about two hours in the hot sun. The oven only needed 12 minutes at 350 F to bake the cookies through.
Even with a crowd notorious for being picky eaters, all of them chose the car cookies in a blind taste test.
She shared the results on Facebook, writing:
The final verdict is in … All the Yellow Brick House kicks chose the car cookies as the BEST. A bit of a crisp on the top and edges with a doughy inside and bottom. While some even tossed out the oven cookies. What a SWEET experiment!