All Hail the Chocolate Chip Cookie!
Sunday is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. No kidding there really is a day dedicated to celebrating the chocolate chip cookie. It turns out there are two days. Some folks celebrate on May 15th and others accept August 4th as the day to celebrate this iconic, historically significant culinary confection.
Either day is fine with me, in fact, I am inclined to celebrate the chocolate chip cookie daily.
Most accounts give credit to Ruth Graves Wakefield for figuring out that chocolate chips taste good in cookies.
On one fateful baking day in 1938 Ruth allegedly ran out of baker’s chocolate called for in a cookie recipe. In that moment of desperation and despair she thought semi-sweet chocolate chunks would be a suitable substitute expecting it would simply melt into the cookie dough and work just like baker’s chocolate. At the time she owned a successful restaurant famous for its home cooking – the Toll House Inn in Whitman MA.
Ruth’s own account of the story is different. She said she was attempting to expand her cookie offering from the original crowd pleaser which was her butterscotch nut cookie. Her purposeful experiment of chopping bits of a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar into the cookie dough was an overnight success. The “Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie” was born. The cookie was so successful that one year later she signed a deal with Nestlé to allow her recipe to be printed on the back of their new product – semi-sweet chocolate chips in exchange for a lifetime supply of the chocolate chips.
Either story is fine with me. No doubt, the aroma wafting from her oven convinced her and her customers that this was something to behold. A cookie that has ultimately become the #1 cookie in America. Over 25% of all the cookies we consume are chocolate chip. All hail the chocolate chip cookie.
The recommended way to celebrate usually includes baking chocolate chip cookies then sharing with family and friends. Happy to help. 😊
There are at least 1500 National Days of Something. If you are not fond of chocolate chip cookies (I can’t imagine it) you can celebrate National Peanut Butter Cookie Day on June 12, National Oatmeal Cookie Day on April 30, National Sugar Cookie Day on July 9 and we even have a day set aside to celebrate Oreo’s on March 6.
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