It's definitely the chocolate which is obvious, but there's a lot more to chocolate chip cookies and these are some things you many not know about them:
Americans eat about 7 billion chocolate chip cookies each year and about half of them are homemade. It is estimated that the average American eats 35,000 chocolate chip cookies in a lifetime. It probably takes all the milk from one cow in it's lifetime to eat those cookies. (I did make that statistic up)
The chocolate chip cookie is almost one hundred years old, having been invented at The Toll House Restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts in the 1930's. The owner of the restaurant, Ruth Graves Westfield, is credited with the first recipe. Her Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie was free to go along with their vanilla ice cream.
The CEO of Nestle discovered that sales of Nestle chocolate bars were increasing because people were trying to reproduce the Toll House cookie. He bought the recipe for $1 and gave Ruth Graves Westfield all the chocolate she needed and put her recipe on Nestles packaging for chocolate bars.
She created chocolate chips by using an ice pick to break up chocolate bars and Nestles created "Nestles Toll House Morsels." Hershey created their own and they called it chocolate chips. Chocolate chip cookies became a huge hit during World War 11 when they were sent in care packages to the troops.
In 1955 chocolate chip dough was created and in 1963 the first chocolate chip cookie, Chips Ahoy, was made by Nabisco.
My favorite chocolate chip cookie was at BJ's a long time ago. The chips were huge and we were so disappointed when they changed the recipe or bought them from someone else.
I could use a tall glass of milk, how about you?
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