Sunday, October 6, 2013

Chocolate Chip Cookies



The chocolate chip cookie is another amazing dessert that has been found baking in peoples’ ovens for years. What I find even more amazing was that this cookie was created by accident in 1930 by Ruth Graves Wakefield. Ruth Graves Wakefield owned a popular restaurant called the Toll House Inn and one night she was trying to make Butter Drop Do Cookies but she didn’t have one of the ingredients: baker’s chocolate. So as a substitute she cut up a semi-sweet chocolate bar and mixed it in the dough hoping it would melt once it was in the oven. However, unlike baker’s chocolate, the chocolate bar pieces didn’t melt - they only softened in the dough, and thus the chocolate chip cookie was born.  

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