Ruth Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie in the 1930s when she was running the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts and ran out of baker's chocolate while making cookies. She decided to add pieces of a Nestle semi-sweet chocolate bar to the dough instead, expecting them to melt, but the chocolate pieces held their shape and the new cookies became a big hit. Wakefield published the recipe for "Toll House Crunch Cookies" in a local newspaper, which helped popularize the chocolate chip cookie. Nestle then started including the recipe on its chocolate wrappers to boost sales.

1. Chocolate Chip Cookies By Kellie Bohlke

2. Ruth Graves Wakefield - Inventor 1930’s Toll House Inn – Whitman, Massachusetts Cooked meals for guests Desserts attracted many in New England Learn More About Ruth Wakefield

3. The Beginning Prepared Butter Drop Do batter Ran out of Baker’s chocolate Cut semi-sweet Nestle chocolate in pieces and added to dough

4. Yummy!

5. The Beginning Added chocolate pieces to dough expecting them to melt Chocolate pieces kept shape New cookies became big hit!

7. The Cookie “ Toll House Crunch Cookies” Recipe published in Boston newspaper

8. Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

9. Nestle Semi-Sweet chocolate bar sales Packaged chopper to cut chocolate 1939: Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels Learn more about Nestle Toll House

10. Ruth and Nestle Nestle “Toll House Cookie” on package Ruth = lifetime supply of chocolate

11. The Legend 7 billion eaten annually Toll House produces 33,000 per day Half of cookies baked in American homes = chocolate chip

12. The End! More About the History of Chocolate Chip Cookies