All You Ever Wanted to Know about Chocolate Chip Cookies

This webpage will tell you all about chocolate chip cookies such as:

1. The cookies history
2. Fun facts
3. How to make chocolate chip cookies

The History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie

The first chocolate chip cookie ever made was in 1930 by a lady named Ruth Wakefield. Mrs. Wakefield was baking her favorite Butter Drop Do cookies and realized that she was out of bakers chocolate and as a replacement decided it would be a good idea to chop up a Nestle's Semisweet Yellow Label Chocolate bar into small pieces and add the pieces into her cookie dough. She had hoped that the chocolate would of melted in with the dough, but instead the chocolate slices only softened. As a result the first chocolate cookie was made as a mistake.

Mrs. Wakefield, at the time, owned an Inn in Massachusetts named the Toll House Inn. Here she distributed her new "invention" to her customers who greatly enjoyed the cookies. Nine years later, the Nestle Company got word of Ruth Wakefield's "big hit" and began marketing their chocolate in morsels under the name Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chips. Nestle bought the rights to the Toll House name as well as Ruth Wakefield's recipe, calling it "The Famous Toll House Cookie." The recipe was even printed on the back of the bag.

Fun Facts about Chocolate Chip Cookies

• In 1987 Chester Soling sponsored a contest to find the best recipe for chocolate chip cookies and got over 2,600 responses for various recipes
• Ruth Wakefield was orginally a dietitian before becoming an owner of an Inn and creator of the chocolate chip cookie
• On New Years Eve, 1984, the Toll House Inn, the original birth place of the chocolate chip cookie, burned down
• Chocolate chip cookies are the biggest selling cookie in the US today
• Chocolate chip cookies were originally called Chocolate Crunch Cookies
• Massachusetts official state cookie is the chocolate chip cookie, and in 2001 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania decleared it their official cookie as well

How to Make a Chocolate Chip Cookie

Ingredients

Directions

1. Preheat over to 350 degrees F
2. Line baking sheet with parchment paper
3. Cream butter in a bowl with an electric mixer
4. While mixing add in white and brown sugars and beat until fluffy
5. Once fluffy, beat in eggs, one at a time
6. Add in Vanilla
7. In another bowl combine flour, baking soda, and salt
8. Mix the contents from the two bowls together and add the chocolate chips in half way through mixing
9. Freeze the dough until firm
10. Once firm scoop out dough onto the prepared baking sheet
11. Bake cookies for 12-14 minutes or until brown around the edges
12. Let Cookies cool on wire rack
13. Enjoy

Nutritional Information

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