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.
Done in a drop style, chocolate chip cookie dough generally has brown sugar, white sugar, butter and semi-sweet chocolate chips as part of the ingredients.
Many variations exist of this cookie. Some can be with oatmeal, nuts, m&m’s, or white chocolate. An example of a yummy variations is white chocolate and macadamia nut.
A fun dessert, a cookie-wich made by Mrs. Field is two cookies with a middle layer of frosting. Loads of sugar and loads of calories! Our local Mrs. Fields stand closed luckily for me!
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.
The Inn was a combination of a hotel and restaurant on a toll road back in those days. So the inn was in a sense a toll booth of yesteryear.
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.
The Wakefield’s sold the inn in the 60’s. Changes were made to it. By the 70’s it was sold again. The owners in the 70’s restored it. In the 80’s a fire burned it down.
Ruth Graves Wakefield lived from 1903 to 1977. She is buried in Massachusetts.
In 1997 it was proposed that the Chocolate Chip Cookie be the official cookie of Massachusetts.
There are billions of chocolate chip cookies eaten each year by cookie lovers everywhere. Thanks Ruth Graves Wakefield for this delicious, classic dessert!
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