Overview
About the event
In the late 1930s, Ruth Wakefield was running the Toll House restaurant in Massachusetts when she developed her recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Meant to be a treat that would accompany ice cream, the cookies were originally made with chocolate that was hand cut into small chunks.
When the cookies became popular, Wakefield sold the recipe to the Nestle chocolate company in 1939. Nestle marketed their chocolate bars with Wakefield�??s recipe on the back. Some of the packages even included a special chopper to make it easier to cut the chocolate into chunks!
Nestle first started making chocolate chips in 1941, so people no longer had to chop up their own chocolate. And instead of being chocolate chunks, the teardrop-like morsel shaped chocolate was incorporated into the cookies.
While chocolate chips are classically semi-sweet in flavor, they have gradually developed over time into other flavors, such as milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate. Butterscotch, caramel, cinnamon, peanut butter, peppermint, espresso, and even pink & blue striped �??unicorn�?� chips.
