Who Invented Chocolate Chip Cookies?
May 14, 2008 by Kayla
The mysteries behind a cookies history can sometimes seem to be endless, but for Americas favorite, the chocolate chip cookie, its got us guessing… who invented the chocolate chip cookie?
This may seem like an impossible question to answer; with many companies claiming the title, but actually only one woman is the true inventor of the chocolate chip cookie.
According to the Eagle Tribune, the person who invented the chocolate chip cookie was Ruth Wakefield.
In 1924 Ruth graduated from the Framingham State Normal School Department of Household Arts. For many years Ruth gave food lectures and worked hard as a dietitian. Ruth first discovered the chocolate chip cookie like many other famous foodsby mistake. Her story and the cookies story started when she and her husband opened a little Inn known as the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.
To bring in more visitors, Wakefield baked fresh cookies for the guests. Her most popular, the Butter Drop Do cookie, is responsible for creating the chocolate chip cookie. The Butter Drop Do cookie recipe called for bakers chocolate but one day Ruth ran out. Frantically searching for a substitute she grabbed a Nestle Chocolate bar (a gift from Andrew Nestle himself), chopped it up, and threw it into the batter.
Fortunately for us, the chocolate didnt completely melt and so in the cookies there were little pieces of the chocolate chips still left! Mrs. Wakefield, who invented the chocolate chip cookie, was stunned with her cookies success and before long her new cookie was extremely popular!
Along with the growing demand of the cookie, sales of the Nestle semi-sweet chocolate bar also increased. Ruth Wakefield and Andrew Nestle soon formed a partnership in order to accommodate the large increase in sales. The deal said that Ruth could have a lifetime supply of Nestle chocolate if she would let Nestle print the Toll House Cookie recipe on their packaging. She agreed and weve been enjoying her chocolate chip cookies for many generations now.
Not only is Ms. Ruth Wakefield the woman who invented the chocolate chip cookie but she also invented an age-old American tradition.
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