The ORIGINAL Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe! (2024)

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What is the origin of Toll House chocolate chip cookies? ›

It all started back in 1939. Ruth Wakefield, who ran the successful Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, was mixing a batch of cookies when she decided to add broken pieces of Nestlé Semi-Sweet chocolate into the recipe expecting the chocolate to melt.

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The original recipe was created in the late 1930s by Ruth Wakefield who famously ran the Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. The delicious mix of crispy cookie and melted chocolate chunks first appeared in her 1938 cookbook “Tried and True,” and was intended to accompany ice cream.

Wakefield wrote a cookbook, Toll House Tried and True Recipes, that went through 39 printings. Wakefield died in 1977, and the Toll House Inn burned down from a fire that started in the kitchen on New Year's Eve 1984.

Baking soda is typically used for chewy cookies, while baking powder is generally used for light and airy cookies. Since baking powder is comprised of a number of ingredients (baking soda, cream of tartar, cornstarch, etc.), using it instead of pure baking soda will affect the taste of your cookies.

WHY ARE MY COOKIES FLAT AND GREASY? Using too much butter in your dough can lead to flat and greasy cookies. As previously noted, baking is a science, and it is essential to closely follow recipe measurements to ensure the best results.

Just before the dough goes in the oven, I take each ball of dough, and flatten it slightly. I then press chunks of chopped chocolate onto the top. You can add some of the chocolate dust from chopping too. Then I squeeze it back into a ball, and place it on the baking sheet.

PARENT COMPANY Nestlé Baking is a division of Nestlé USA, which is owned by Nestlé S.A. of Vevey, Switzerland — the world's largest food company. First Offered in 1939, NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels are the original chocolate chip and the best-selling chocolate morsels in America.

Do Toll House chocolate chips go bad? ›

Chocolate chips: Unopened in the pantry, chocolate chips are good for two to four months. You can also keep them in the fridge for six to eight months or the freezer for two to three years if they're bound for a future batch of cookie dough.

Why can't I eat your regular Toll House Cookie Dough raw? Our refrigerated cookie dough is not formulated to be consumed raw and must be baked before eating. We have several edible cookie dough products that are ready to enjoy right out of the container.

After completely cool, place in a tightly sealed resealable container, your Toll House® cookies will last up to 3 or 4 months!

As a general rule of thumb, you should refrigerate cookie dough for at least 30 minutes and up to 24 hours. More than that, and you won't see a noticeable difference in the final product. Once the dough has chilled, let it warm up at room temperature until it's just pliable (about 5 to 10 minutes).

Nestle USA recalled two batches of its Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough because they may be contaminated with wood fragments. The company said it issued the recall in an abundance of caution after a “small number” of customers contacted Nestle about the issue.

Another claim is that the American name derives from the Dutch word koekje or more precisely its informal, dialect variant koekie which means little cake, and arrived in American English with the Dutch settlement of New Netherland, in the early 1600s.

In May 2022, it was announced Nestlé Toll House Café has been acquired by the California-headquartered restaurant franchising company, FAT Brands for an undisclosed sum. It was also later confirmed that all Nestlé Toll House Café locations would be converted into Great American Cookies locations by the end of 2022.

Ruth Graves Wakefield - Wikipedia.