Toll House Cookies

I am making chocolate chip cookies for a group of people who will be volunteering this weekend. Chocolate chip cookies is an American favorite and I was wondering who came up with the idea. After researching online, I found who it was.

Ruth Wakefield 

Ruth Wakefield was the woman who invented the Toll House brand of chocolate chip cookies. She was a dietitian and food lecturer. She and her husband purchased a tourist lodge named, Toll House Inn, where she  prepared and served meals to the guests. One day she was making her favorite batch of cookies, Butter Drop Do (which date back to colonial times.) However, she did not have her main ingredient which was baker's chocolate. So she substituted a bar of semi-sweet chocolate which she broke into pieces an placed in the dough. She believed that the chunks of chocolate would melt and absorb into the dough creating a chocolate dough. Instead, the dough was vanilla based and the chocolate pieces did not melt all the way. She served it to her guests and it was a hit. 

The semi-sweet bar of chocolate she used was a gift from Andrew Nestle from Nestle Chocolate Company. They became extremely popular in her local community, her recipe was published in Boston newspaper. Sales soured for Nestle semi-sweet chocolate bars and Ruth Wakefield and Andrew Nestle made a business deal. Nestle Chocolate Company would print Wakefield's Toll House Cookie Recipe on their packages, in exchange for a life-supply of Nestle chocolate. What a wonderful story! You can still find Ruth Wakefield's original recipe on the back of any Nestle semi-sweet chocolate chips! 

Chocolate Chip Cookies

As a family, we have a tradition that when it snows we bake chocolate chip cookies. This tradition brings our family together and is something I can't wait to do in my household. Click on the Link above (Chocolate Chip Cookies) and you can bake your own!