Crazy for Cookies

Section: Food

Nestlé® Toll House® Morsels

Family Features) - Cookie connoisseurs across the country always agree on one thing. North, south, east or west - from Alaska to Florida and back - chocolate chip cookies win first prize in the cookie popularity contest. An American invention dating to 1930, the famous cookie with its blissful combination of chocolate (and sometimes nuts) in a "crisp on the outside, soft on the inside" buttery dough is everyone's favorite.

First baked in the 1930s for travelers stopping at the Toll House Inn near Boston, the original chocolate chip cookie was the creation of its proprietor, Ruth Wakefield, an excellent cook. While making cookies one day, Mrs. Wakefield added pieces of a Nestlé Semi-Sweet chocolate bar to the cookie dough. The crisp, buttery cookies studded with chocolate nuggets were a hit with her customers. So popular, in fact, that Nestlé printed the recipe on the chocolate bar wrapper. In 1940, the company introduced Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels in a convenient, ready-to-use form, and the cookie-baking world has never been the same.

There is even Toll House cookie dough for cookie bakers who are short on time. Look for Toll House cookie dough in the refrigerated section of your favorite grocery store, or make any of the scrumptious varieties here for the very best homemade cookies ever.