National Chocolate Chip Day
We're sure we're talking about a morsel of a thing on National Chocolate Chip Day on May 15th.
Have you ever wondered how a single ingredient would change a dish? Have you ever wondered how a single ingredient would change a dish? It's impossible to imagine where we would be without the invention of chocolate chips if it weren't for one particular baker.
Ruth Graves Wakefield of Whitman Massachusetts, 1937, must have been curious about what a little bit of chocolate would add to her cookies.. She used to decorate cookies with cut-up pieces of a semi-sweet Nestle chocolate bar while working at Toll House Inn. Wakefield's cookies were a huge success, and in 1939 Wakefield signed an agreement with Nestle to add her recipe to the chocolate bar's packaging. Wakefield received a lifetime supply of chocolate in exchange for the dish. For Inn, the Nestle brand Toll House cookies were named.
Nestle's first Nestle bars came with a small chopping knife. Nestle and other Nestle and other competitors began selling the chocolate in chip or morsel form in 1941. Bakers began making chocolate chip cookies without first chopping up the chocolate bar.
Chocolate chips were first introduced in semi-sweet form. Chocolate makers began selling bittersweet, semi-sweet, mint, white chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white and dark swirled. Today, chips also come in a variety of other flavors that bakers and candy makers use imaginatively in their kitchens..
Although cookies may be the first thing to come to mind, imagination is really the only thing that restricts how chocolate chips can be used in baking and candy making. Also, many traditional dishes use chocolate chips in a variety of ways. We never wondered what a few chopped up pieces of chocolate would be like in her baking, but we didn't even have chocolate chip cookies.
How to celebrate #chocolatechipday
Be sure to celebrate whether you bake chocolate chip cookies or melt them down and begin dipping. Make sweet treats to share or try a new recipe. Dive into Grandma's recipe box and try an old favorite, too.. Of course, be sure to post the best ones. It's the best way to #CelebrateEveryDay. To post on social media, use #ChocolateChipDay.
