Daycare kids love cookies baked in a hot car

Registered early childhood educator follows CBC Windsor experiment with cooking inside a hot car

Media | Van or oven cookies?

Caption: After a CBC Windsor experiment, a local daycare asked kids whether they liked cookies using the car or the oven better.

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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.

Image | Wdr-Pingle van experiment July 13, 2016

Caption: Leslie Pingle, a registered early childhood educator, tried out making cookies in a hot car. Turns out the kids at her daycare liked them better than ones baked in the oven. (Leslie Pingle/Facebook)

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.

Image | wdr-Pingle Experiment July 13, 2016

Caption: Kids at the Yellow Brick House home daycare check in on the cookies in the oven. (Leslie Pingle/Facebook)

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.

Image | wdr-Pingle experiment July 13, 2016

Caption: Kids are notoriously picky eaters, but they all seemed to prefer the cookies baked inside a car over the ones done in the oven. (Leslie Pingle/Facebook)

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!