#15: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Surprisingly, the chocolate chip cookie, a simple yet beloved dessert, hasn’t always been a part of our culinary history, being less than a century old. Its existence owes much to a serendipitous shortage of baker’s chocolate at a Massachusetts Inn. This twist of fate delayed its creation, almost depriving the world of this classic treat for even longer.
At the Toll House Inn, owned by Ruth Wakefield, a chocolaty experiment unfolded due to a missing ingredient. Assuming Nestle chocolate chunks would blend into the batter, she inadvertently created the first chocolate chip cookies. This culinary accident led her to sell the recipe to Nestle in exchange for a lifetime’s worth of chocolate, marking the recipe’s place on Nestle Chocolate chip bags forever.