Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Loaf

Preparation info
  • Three

    1 lb loaves
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
It's a Sweet World: Recipes from Around the Globe at Bea’s Bakery

By Lenny Rosenberg and Adaeze Nwanonyiri

Published 2025

  • About

What could be more American than chocolate chip anything? It’s certainly always been a favorite at Bea’s. But did you know that chocolate chip cookies were reportedly created by chef and food author Ruth Graves Wakefield in her famous Massachusetts Toll House Inn almost ninety years ago, when she decided to add a few chunks from a sweet chocolate bar to her cookie dough?

Her cookies became so popular that she struck a deal with the chocolate bar company to use her r