Who first made Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Most popular cookies is the Chocolate Chip Cookie. Fresh out of the oven is how my husband, my kids and I like them best.
Chocolate Chip Cookies are drop style cookie. They traditionally consist of a dough with brown sugar and white sugar and butter and semi-sweet chocolate chips in it.
There are variations of the cookies with oatmeal or nuts or M&M’s like my kids love. Another favorite is Macadamia nut in with white chocolate.
Mrs. Fields make a cookie-wich that I love. It is two cookies with frosting in the middle! Talk about sugar rush and calories! Thankfully for me our Mrs. Fields stand is no longer at the local mall. ![]()
Who do we owe thanks to for this great treat? The Chocolate Chip Cookie was first made by a lady named Ruth Graves Wakefield. They were called Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Why “Toll House”? It was because she had bought an inn with her husband, Kenneth Wakefield in Massachusetts and was the cook there.
“Toll House Inn” was an inn, restaurant and a toll stop. Being built on a toll road, folks stopped there to pay their tolls like a modern day toll both for us.
Ruth Graves Wakefield had written a cookbook in 1940’s that had her recipes in it from the years of cooking at the inn. The cookbook was called “Ruth Wakefield’s Recipes:Tried and True”. It became a best selling cookbook.
In the 1960’s the Toll House Inn was sold by the Wakefields. It went through changes and in the 1970’s was bought, restored and then it was claimed by fire in the 1980’s.
From 1903-1977 was when Ruth Graves Wakefield lived. Her grave is in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts has the chocolate chip cookie as it’s official cookie thanks to a proposal in 1997.
There are billions of chocolate chip cookies eaten each year by cookie lovers everywhere. Thanks Ruth Graves Wakefield for this delicious, classic dessert!
Posted: July 4th, 2009 under Dessert Recipes.
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