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Article: The chocolate chip cookie mistake.
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- Hopscotch
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- February 1, 2008
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Did you know the first batch of the most popular American cookie was made by mistake?
In 1930, Ruth Graves Wakefield, who owned the Toll House Inn with her husband, was whipping up a batch of butter-drop do cookies for her guests when she realized she had run out of baking chocolate. She needed a substitute to make her chocolate cookies, so she used a semi-sweet candy bar that was given to her by Andrew Nestle. She cut the candy into pieces and mixed it with the dough, expecting it would melt when baked.
Instead, the chocolate didn't melt but only softened, creating the first batch of chocolate chip cookies. Ruth named this the Toll House cookie after ...