In the 1930s, Ruth Wakefield, owner
of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts
, added broken chocolate bar pieces into her cookie batter thinking that they would melt. Instead, the classic dessert was born.
Overlooked No More:
Ruth Wakefield
, Who Invented the Chocolate Chip Cookie.
The chocolate chip cookie, aka. the [Nestle] Toll House Cookie, was invented in the 1930s (probably c. 1938) at the Toll House Inn in Whitman,
Massachusetts
, by innkeeper Ruth Graves Wakefield.
The Largest Cookie: 754 Square Meters
The Immaculate Baking Company made the giant,
754 square meter (8,120 square foot) chocolate chip cookie
in Flat Rock, North Carolina, in May of 2003. Weighing 40,000 pounds, it had a 101-foot diameter.
Why is it called a chocolate chip?
The origins of the modern chocolate chip lie with Ruth Wakefield, the woman who created the Toll House cookie in the 1930s. … The recipe was a bit like chocolate shortbread, and the “chip” name came
from the small squares the cookies were cut into
.
The chocolate chip cookie may be one of the most well-known accidental culinary innovations in the world. While baking cookies for the guests at her inn, Ruth Wakefield unknowingly—at the time—invented America's favorite cookie. … Chocolate chip cookies are also popular
because they hold a lot of nostalgia for people
.
WWII. Chowhound reports that because the chocolate chip cookie was so strongly associated with Massachusetts,
Bay Staters shipped them off to their stationed troops to remind them of home
. As the cookies were shared with fellow soldiers, their popularity grew—and so did the demand for folks back home to bake them.
The chocolate chip cookie gave comfort to Americans right after the Great Depression (Michaud). The rise of the chocolate chip cookie was propelled even further during
World War II
(Michaud). During the war, gender roles were especially perpetuated.
The first cookies are thought to be test cakes bakers used to test the oven temperature. They date back as early as
7th Century A.D. Persia
which is now Iran. They were one of the first countries to grow and harvest sugar cane.
What is the world's largest pizza?
World's Heaviest Pizza
The heaviest pizza in the world weighed a whopping 26,883 pounds. Made in Norwood Hypermarket in Norwood, South Africa, the world's heaviest pizza was just
over 122 feet in diameter
. The hefty pizza was made on December 10, 1990.
What is the biggest brownie in the world?
The largest brownie weighed
106.2 kg (234 lb 3 oz)
and was achieved by Something Sweet Bake Shop (USA) in Daphne, Alabama, USA, on 12 September 2013.
Is there a difference between chocolate chips and morsels?
CHIPS VERSUS
MORSELS
Although we call the cookies that bear them “chocolate chip,” the proper name for said chips is actually “morsels”—at least if you're Nestle. … By 1941, “chocolate chip cookies” was considered the standard name for the sweet treat.
Can you eat chocolate morsels?
These semi-sweet chocolate morsels are often used in baking, specifically chocolate chip cookies. The cookie itself may not be as healthy as the chocolate, especially the dark chocolate called semi-sweet. You
can eat them out of the bag
, but you may want to watch your amounts.
How did chocolate chips get their shape?
Baking and melting
The melting process starts at 90 °F (32 °C), when the cocoa butter starts melting in the chips. … Because most chocolate chips are designed to retain their shape when baking, they contain less cocoa butter than baking chocolate, and so can be more difficult to work with melted.
One might end up questioning the unhealthiness of something as delicious and irresistible as a chocolate chip cookie. Commercially manufactured chocolate chip cookies have preservatives and artificial sugars in it, making it
unhealthy
and adding an unnecessary amount of calories to it.
– According to a Nestlé Toll House poll in 2017,
chocolate chip cookies
are the most popular cookie in 18 states, followed by peanut butter chocolate chip. Considering this comes from a chocolate chip maker, we take that with a large grain of sea salt.
