Posted on 05/15/2023 12:17:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
(Last Updated On: May 12, 2023)
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY
On May 15th, we recognize a morsel of a thing on National Chocolate Chip Day!
#ChocolateChipDay
Have you ever wondered how a single ingredient would change a recipe? If it weren’t for one curious baker, it would be hard to imagine where we would be without the invention of chocolate chips.
In 1937, Ruth Graves Wakefield of Whitman Massachusetts must have been curious about what a little bit of chocolate would add to her cookies. While working at the Toll House Inn, she added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestle chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. The cookies were a huge success and in 1939 Wakefield signed an agreement with Nestle to add her recipe to the chocolate bar’s packaging. In exchange for the recipe, Wakefield received a lifetime supply of chocolate. The Nestle brand Toll House cookies were named for the Inn.
Nestle initially included a small chopping tool with the chocolate bars, too. Starting in 1941, Nestle and other competitors started selling the chocolate in chip or morsel form. For the first time, bakers began making chocolate chip cookies without chopping up the chocolate bar first.
Chocolate chips originally came in semi-sweet. Later, chocolate producers began offering bittersweet, semi-sweet, mint, white chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white and dark swirled. Today, chips also come in a variety of other flavors that bakers and candy makers use creatively in their kitchens.
While cookies may be the first treat to come to mind, imagination is really the only thing limiting how chocolate chips can be used in baking and candy making. Even savory dishes feature chocolate chips in a variety of ways, too. Had Ruth Graves Wakefield never wondered what a few chopped up chunks of chocolate would be like in her baking, we wouldn’t even have chocolate chip cookies.
HOW TO OBSERVE CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY
Whether you bake up chocolate chip cookies or melt them down and begin dipping, be sure to celebrate! Make sweet treats to share or experiment with a new recipe. Dive into Grandma’s recipe box and try an old favorite, too!
Be sure to share the bests ones, of course. It’s the best way to #CelebrateEveryDay! Use #ChocolateChipDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY HISTORY
Within our research, National Day Calendar continues seeking the origins of this chocolately holiday.
Chocolate Chip off the old Block ping!.............
Just my luck. Today is my birthday and I don’t even like chocolate.
Aww, that stinks. Happy Birthday, though!
Had some chocolate chips just last night. I might just have to have more tonight, in honor of the day!
Basic Toll House Chocolate Chip cookies are still my favorite. No nuts, no overbaking or cake like cookies, just a bit cripsy on the outside and somewhat gooey in the middle.
Bought some store brand, Aldi’s, c-chip cookies a couple of weeks ago.
THEY WERE HARD AS ROCKS!............
The only grocery store chocolate chip cookies I’ll purchase is from Hy-Vee’s. They are almost perfect. I bought some at my local, very expensive, grocery store and they hard as rocks, as yours were. Homemade seems to be the only way.
Back in the fifties we had our class banquet at The Toll House..
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I plan to make some cookies today to celebrate plus I have the munchies
I think I chipped a tooth!.......................😉
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