More Great Moments in Cookie History

1930s—Ruth Wakefield introduces chocolate chip cookies by cutting a chocolate bar into chips and adding them to the cookie dough at her Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.

1939—The Nestlé Company introduces chocolate morsels, changing American cookies forever. Now, Nestlé manufactures 240 million morsels every day.

1956—Margaret Rudkin introduces her Pepperidge Farm line of “Distinctive Cookies.” Her insistence on high-quality ingredients such as real butter was a rarity in commercially baked cookies of that time.