Posted on 05/15/2025 5:37:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY
On May 15, we recognize a morsel of a thing on National Chocolate Chip Day! This tiny piece of chocolate makes a big impact to any recipe you add it to!
#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.
Notable Birthdays for May 15
Levi Lincoln, Sr. (1749-1820) - President Thomas Jefferson's first Attorney General.
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) - Author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Ida Rhodes (1900-1986) - Pioneer in computer programming.
Frank Evans Heart (1929-2018) - Computer engineer who was the first to work on the first routing computer for ARPANET.
Notable Birthdays for May 15
1672 - The first copyright law enacted by Massachusetts.
1862 - The Department of Agriculture is created.
1869 - Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association in New York.
1905 - The city of Las Vegas is founded.
1928 - Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in the film Plane Crazy.
1933 - The first voice amplification system (microphone) is used in the Senate.
1940 - The first McDonald's restaurant is opened.
1942 - Gas is rationed in the U.S.
1944 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bernard Montgomery, Winston Churchill and King George VI discuss plans for D-Day in Europe.
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Another CHOCOLATE DAY TO CELEBRATE!!!!....................
Bkmk
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Pie / Gulf Shores, Ala Original Oyster House's scrumptious Pie.
Rich cool Summer treat served w/ dollop of whipped cream.
Ing 8 oz cr/cheese, 1 c ea p/butter, conf 16 oz cool whip, 1 cup mini choc/chips Oreo Cookie crust
Steps Elec/mixer softened cr/cheese, p/butter, conf. Fold in thawed cool whip; may take awhile.
Fold in choc/chips. Spread into crust. Cover/freeze overnight. Slice and serve w/ whipped cream.
Chocolate! I was already celebrating with choc chips in my coffee.
Made a chocolate crepe cake on Sunday for mother. She refused to cut it so I did to see the surprise inside and so she couldn’t pass it on to the neighbors as hers. Had to practically make her take a nibble to which she frowned and demanded 6 times what was in it. Uh, obviously chocolate and cream filling and went through the ingredient list repeatedly. Oh well, I tried just like I’ve done since I was 7. The old saying about doing the same thing and getting the same result is true.
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