The History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie

Nestle Chocolate Chip Cookies

The history of the chocolate chip cookie goes back to the 1930's. Ruth Wakefield and her husband where the owners and operators of the Toll House Inn located Massachusetts and liked to give their guests a unique experience by baking scrumptious desserts.

Ruth herself worked hard in the kitchen and soon created a name for herself by her wonderful desserts. One of her favorite recipes the Butter Drop Cookie called for baker's chocolate.

Having run out of bakers chocolate during one of her weekly cookie bakes, Ruth substituted semi- sweet chocolate from a bar given to her by one of her guests - this came from the Nestle Chocolate Company.

The new Nestle Chocolate chip cookies soon became quite a hit, as everyone who tasted it enjoyed the softened chocolate inside the cookie.

The Nestle Chocolate Company became eager to have its name associated with this new popular treat, traded Ruth Wakefield a lifetime supply of chocolate for the right to print her chocolate chip cookie recipe on all of their chocolate packaging.

The cookies have become famously known as the Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookie which has delighted generation after generation with its simple goodness.

Over the years variations of the chocolate chip cookie have been created using different ingredients. But most cookie lovers will tell you that the very best chocolate chip cookies is the one simple in creation.