“Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in a most delightful way” - P. L. Travers. Sweet treats are the key to one’s heart, as well as baking and giving. Ruth Graves Wakefield was the accidental inventor of chocolate chip cookies. She was born in East Walpole, Massachusetts, lived from June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977, and was alive for 73 years. She and her husband owned the Toll House Inn which grew to be the Nestlé Toll House company that society knows and loves today. Ruth Graves Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie, responded with wonderment and awe of her creation, and impacted Nestlé Toll House company along with so many families who adore the delectable dessert.
Chocolate chip cookies are the most popular cookies in the America and according to various sources, they range from 1st to 3rd in the United States most popular desserts. The traditional recipe consists of a dough made of butter, white and brown sugar, Nestle
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One day in 1938, Ruth was making a batch of traditional Chocolate Butter Drop Do cookies to serve to her guests As Wakefield started to bake, she found that she was out of baker's chocolate, so instead, “Wakefield broke a bar of Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate into tiny pieces and added them to the dough expecting to create a chocolate cookie” (Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Morsels Celebrates 75th Anniversary, 2014). As the cookies baked, the chocolate did not melt into the dough as Ruth expected, but instead the chocolate chunks only softened into mushy, moist, gooey morsels nicely baked inside the cookie. This mistake cookie was originally called the Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie, but is now known as the chocolate chip cookie (Krake, 2013). Instead of throwing her new creation away, thinking of it as a failure, she embraced her mistake and was so successful for