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Chocolate Chip Cookies are one the most popular cookies ever. I love them when they are fresh out of the oven as do my kids and my husband.

Chocolate chip cookies are called a drop cookie. Their dough traditionally has brown sugar, white sugar, butter and semi-sweet chocolate chips.

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.
A lady by the name of Ruth Graves Wakefield is the one whom made this great treat. We owe her thanks. The famous name she gave them was “Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies”.

Where did the “Toll House” part come from? It was the name of the inn owned by Ruth and her husband, Kenneth Wakefield in Massachusetts.

Built on a toll road, the inn was a toll booth of sorts, a restaurant and an inn. Folks would pay tolls there like we pat tolls today.

In the 1940’s Ruth Graves Wakefield wrote a cookbook based on the years cooking at the inn. It was a best seller called “Ruth Wakefield’s Recipes: Tried and True”.

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.

In 1997 it was proposed that the Chocolate Chip Cookie be the official cookie of Massachusetts.

Each year billions of variations of this cookie are eaten by folks around the world. We owe Ruth Graves Wakefield a big thank-you for such a classic treat.