Today is a day for celebrating the chocolate chip! There are endless ways you can enjoy the tasty little morsel – in cookies, muffins, breads, ice cream. My personal favorites are chocolate chip banana bread and pancakes.
History
Chocolate chips were created with the invention of chocolate chip cookies in 1937 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. (The Nestlé brand Toll House cookies is named for the inn.) The cookies were a huge success, and Wakefield reached an agreement in 1939 with Nestlé to add her recipe to the chocolate bar’s packaging in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate. Initially, Nestlé included a small chopping tool with the chocolate bars. In 1941, Nestlé and at least one of its competitors started selling the chocolate in “chip” (or “morsel”) form.
Books
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If You Give a Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child’s day.
Outrageous Chocolate Chip Cookies
A great combination of chocolate chips, oatmeal, and peanut butter.
What You’ll Need:
- 1/2 c butter
- 1/2 c white sugar
- 1/3 c brown sugar
- 1/2 c peanut butter
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1 c all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 c rolled oats and 1 c chocolate chips
How To Make:
1.Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2.In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Stir in the peanut butter, vanilla and egg until well blended. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; stir into the batter just until moistened. Mix in the oats and chocolate chips until evenly distributed. Drop by tablespoonfuls on to lightly greased cookie sheets.
3.Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges start to brown. Cool on cookie sheets for about 5 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
