The History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie

By Miss Cellania in Food & Drink on Dec 22, 2009 at 12:04 pm

The cookies we all know and love started out as a mistake!

In 1930, a dietitian who owned a tourist lodge was cooking and baking for her guests. Unfortunately, she ran out of the baker’s chocolate she needed for the chocolate cookies that were on the menu. She hurriedly substituted a chocolate bar — cut up into tiny pieces — assuming they would melt. They didn’t — they just softened, instead.

The mistake turned out all right for her in the end, and even brought her a lifetime supply of chocolate! Link -via the Presurfer

Tags: chocolate, cookies, History

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hedwig
Dec 22nd, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I just made a batch of choc chip cookies using a bar of chunked up dark choc with orange bits… they are fantastic!
Mindy
Dec 22nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
My niece and I actually just read a short essay about this woman, Ruth Wakefield, who was the person who created these signature cookies by accident at her inn she owned with her husband… the Toll House Inn And Nestle was the company she cut a deal with for chocolate bars. She is also the reason that chocolate bars are now scored (lines cut in them) to make them easier to break into regular pieces.
Johnny Cat
Dec 22nd, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Right on, Mindy. http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventors/a/Chocolate_Chip.htm
AntDude
Dec 22nd, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Now, I am hungry for a cookie. Nom nom!
Jomaque
Dec 22nd, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I just did my final project on the history of chocolate chip cookies for my Information Resources for Research class. Thanks Ruth Wakefield. American cookies would be no where without her!
Katey
Dec 24th, 2009 at 1:22 am
Not the most informational article about the history of the “Toll House Cookie” online! It fails to even mention Mrs Wakefield by name.

She was not a dietitian- she ran a restaurant which specialized in ‘home cooked meals.’ Her Toll House restaurant was well regarded in the US for many years for reasons other than the cookie.
Skyfrog
Dec 25th, 2009 at 10:51 am
I don’t understand. She assumed they would melt and turn the entire cookie chocolate? Don’t you mix the baking chocolate with the batter before baking them? Also, as far as I know chocolate does melt. Take some cookies out of the oven and the chocolate will be completely melted. It doesn’t firm up until they cool some. The story just seems a bit forced, doesn’t seem like it was really an accident. Just something she tried and it turned out really well.

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