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Can I bake cookies directly on parchment paper (I have no cookie sheet/aluminum foil)?

I'm cooking in my little apartment's kitchen (in a toaster oven, no less).I have to make 48 cookies by tomorrow, and I have no cookie sheet and no aluminum foil.Please don't tell me go to the grocery store! because I have absolutely no time for that and no cab fare!So what can I use as a substitution for a cookie sheet? Anything?

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Toilet paper would be my guessOnly exception would be if you could get aluminum shavings with a very high surface areaGood Luck!
It all depends on how easily the air can get to the burning surfaceAluminum sounds difficult but when finely powdered and sprinkled on a fire it will spark right awayTightly-rolled newspaper can take forever to burnEtc.
You can bake on parchment, but it may not work in a toaster oven because the paper will be so close to the heat source that it may catch fireYou may also get some burn lines on the bottom where the wire rack hits the bottom of the parchment because you've got no flat metal surface to disperse the heatYou might experiment by trying to bake a piece of parchment alone and see how it doesOr put a tortilla or a piece of bread on it and see if you get any strange lines on the bottom.

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