Who Invented Chocolate Chip Cookies?
The invention of chocolate chip cookies is often credited to Ruth Wakefield. With her husband, Wakefield ran the Tollhouse Inn in Massachusetts. The common story goes that Wakefield, who often made food for her guests, decided to make a chocolate butter cookie but didn’t have enough chocolate bars to produce one. Instead she chopped up the bars and added them to the butter cookie recipe. The chocolate chip cookies were an immediate success, and became known as Tollhouse cookies. They became so popular, that Nestles Chocolate Company purchased the recipe with the rights to print the recipe on its semi-sweet chocolate bars. In exchange, Wakefield received free chocolate for life. At that point there still were not chips in chocolate chip cookies, but instead the cookies had chunks of chopped chocolate. Nestles had some popularity with the Wakefield’s chocolate chip cookies, but the recipe became far easier to follow when in 1939 Nestles developed the standard chocolate chip, called a cho
