Chocolate Chip Cookies

The iconic chocolate chip cookie is one of the most popular, most delicious, and simplest cookies in the world. It is somewhat surprising how recently it was created. The cookie was invented in 1930 by Ruth Graves Wakefield, the owner of the Tollhouse Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. The story goes that Mrs. Wakefield was beginning a batch of chocolate cookies. After preparing the dough, she realized that she had run out of baker’s chocolate. She began breaking up a semi-sweet bar of Nestlé c