It was time for a break from quilting so I decided to make cookies in the solar oven.
It was a perfect sunny afternoon. Within minutes of opening up the oven, the temp was at 350º, exactly where I needed it to be. The little Granite Ware cookie sheet fits perfectly and is just the right size for 6 cookies . . 5 for me and 1 for Vince! 🙂 Not really . . I only had one cookie.
When I open the door, a lot of the heat escapes and it takes it a few minutes to get back up to 350º so it took them about 15 minutes to cook.
Vince will be so happy to have homemade cookies that he will not even mind that I’m going to spend the evening sewing.
And, what about the rest of the cookie dough?
A cookie sheet was lined with wax paper and spoonfuls of the dough was dropped onto the wax paper. I stuck it in the freezer for about 20 minutes to flash freeze it.
Then the frozen dough was pulled off the wax paper and dropped into a freezer bag and returned to the freezer. Next time we want cookies, we can simply take out as many pieces as we need want and bake them, having fresh homemade cookies without any mess to clean up.
Karin says
I love doing this will cookie dough – some recipes make SO many cookies, and you know if you bake a lot, you’ll eat a lot! So, baking 6 at a time is definitely smart!
Penny Holliday says
Judy ~ I’m fascinated w/ your solar oven! Curious tho how do you achieve the correct temperature & maintain it for the particular item that you are baking? Your solar oven does remind me of something we made w/ a box & foil to use while camping with the Boy/Girl Scouts. I was a leader so many yrs ago for my adult children that all I can remember was that we followed directions to built the oven & then recipes from the scout manual. We also, kept our fingers crossed that our meal would cook. It was strictly stews, eggs & maybe cake & such but I don’t remember trying to bake cookies. Thanx ~ Penny in So CA
SarahB says
Can I just tell you how much I LOVE these posts you make of time savings in the kitchen. Honestly, I never would have thought of flash-freezing cookies already cut/shaped into individual cookies!! I thought freezing the logs was about as cool as it got but this is even better… are these any cookies that this won’t work for??
Patty says
The grilled cheese sandwiches looked great on the blog tv. I judt don’t get the swearing. Not a prude by any stretch of the imagination but there is a tima and a place.
Gonna try that fresh mozzarella grilled sandwich though.
LadyBaltimore says
Chocolate Sesame cookies? They sound scrumptious!!!!!
Dar in MO says
Those cookies look delish. I checked your recipe tab and don’t see anything that says “chocolate ____ cookies”. If they are easy, sure would like to know what you put in them. I could freeze them in my freezer and then bake a few in the toaster oven. Don’t have a solar oven ….yet! Thanks for sharing.
carol c says
would like the receipe to this one please
Linda Steller says
What a neat idea about freezing the dough! I’m going to have to try making some cookies using almond flour. It doesn’t affect my blood sugar like wheat flour. I’ve successfully eaten some berry crunch I’ve made with it. Where there’s a will, there’s a way! ;D
Carol says
I’m quite impressed with your solar oven. I live in the Northeast and we’ve been getting a lot of rain lately – some of your rain. (We need it since we had almost no snow this past winter. Not complaining!) Penny H’s post brought back memories of trying to create a solar oven at Girl Scout camp using foil and a box. It wasn’t very successful – too many clouds and shade from all the trees. Wow, that was a long time ago.