National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
Munch on some chocolate chip cookies on #NationalChocolateChipCookieDay
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day is celebrated annually on 4 August and is a day to enjoy these tasty bits of chocolate in your favourite cookies.
Chocolate chips, those tasty hidden nuggets of blended cocoa are loved by all, making it a day for everyone to appreciate. Chocolate chips come in dark, milk or white chocolate and are used in many forms in cookie recipes.
Ruth Graves Wakefield of Whitman Massachusetts must have been curious what a little bit of chocolate would add to her cookies. While working at the Toll House Inn in 1937, she added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to a sugar cookie recipe – and the cookies were a huge success.
In 1939, Ruth signed an agreement with Nestlé, and her recipe was added to the chocolate bar’s packaging. In exchange for the recipe, she received a lifetime’s supply of chocolate.
Chocolate chip cookies come in many shapes, sizes and flavours. In some recipes peanut butter or oatmeal is added or the chips are melted before adding them.
However you use them, chocolate chip cookies are an all time favourite. Just ask the Cookie Monster, who will not think twice about informing you, “C is for cookie!”
Celebrate today by baking a batch of your favourite chocolate chip cookies and throw some extra chocolate chips into the mix – just because! Invite some of your friends and family over for tea, and spoil them with these delicious, chocolatey treats.
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