Chocolate Chip Cookies Just a Mistake

The originator - or originator - of the chocolate chip cookie was Ruth Wakefield. In 1924, Ruth Wakefield after graduating from Framingham State general School's group of Household Arts, she lectured on food and worked as a dietitian. After marrying, she and her husband bought a tourist lodge (bed and breakfast) and called it the "Toll House Inn."

Sound familiar?

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Well the chocolate chip cookie precisely came about by sheer accident. Ruth Wakefield was responsible for, and cooked the meals of, the guests at Toll House Inn. She had a extra formula called Butter Drop Do cookies. This formula called for crumbled baker's chocolate - a bitter chocolate if you've ever taken a bite.

One day while baking away, Ruth realized she did not have any baker's chocolate on hand, but she did have a semi-sweet chocolate bar. So she cut that up into bits and pieces and added it to her recipe. Unlike baker's chocolate which melts down completely, the semi-sweet pieces only partially melted. Leaving those lovely bits of chocolate we all love so much. And, of course, her cookies were a big hit with her guests.

But the story doesn't end there...

The misused chocolate bar was precisely a gift from Andrew Nestle - of yes, the Nestle Chocolate Company. As Ruth's cookies grew and grew in popularity so did the sale of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bars!

It wasn't long before Andrew Nestle and Ruth Wakefield struck a deal which was Ruth's printed formula on the back of every package of Toll House Chocolate Chips. In return for getting the recipe, Ruth received a lifetime's provide of Nestle's chocolate.

Ruth did write her own cookbook called "Toll House Tried and True Recipes," in 1940.

In 1977 Ruth passed away, and on New Year's Eve, 1984, the Toll House Inn burned to the ground. However, to this day the agreement holds and Ruth's formula continues on the back of each Nestlé Toll House chocolate bar package. She continues to be so honored into the 21st century.

Thirty years later, with condition on everyone's minds, here's a great twist to the original chocolate chip recipe. Add sugarless candy chocolate bits to your cookies! original chocolate chip cookie taste with less calories.

Who knows... The next cookie could be your most invention.

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Chocolate Chip Cookies Just a Mistake