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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.

Chocolate chip cookies have many variations. Some are m&m’s, oatmeal, and nuts. Some variations include white chocolate too, like white chocolate with macadamia nut for example.

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.
History says a lady with the name of Ruth Graves Wakefield is who we thank for the chocolate chip cookies. They were called “Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies” then.

The reason for the Toll House name is Ruth Graves Wakefield had purchased an inn called the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts with her husband, Kenneth Wakefield.

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.

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!