Chocolate Chip

Cookies

Do you know chocolate chip

cookies?

They are a very traditional

American food.

They are very yummy!

Did you know this super yummy treat

was born from a mistake?

YES! Here is the story:

It was a lady called Ruth Graves

Wakefield that invented chocolate

chip cookies.

In 1933, Ruth and her husband had a small hotel called “Toll House Inn”

(you know, “inn” is a small hotel by the

road)

Ruth was a good cook and always

prepared the food for their guests

herself.

One day, she was making one of her favorite cookies

recipes, when she saw she didn’t

have the rightchocolate .

So, she cut a bar of Nestlé’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate into little pieces

And prepared the cookies… Can you guess

what happened?

Ruth didn’t get chocolate cookies.

Instead, she got cookies with

chocolate bits in them.

Ruth decided to serve the cookies anyway, and….

Everybody loved them!

Everyone liked them so much that Ruth published the

recipe in the newspaper.

And they became very popular.

And the Nestlé semi-sweet

chocolate bars became popular,

too.

So Nestlé bought Ruth’s recipe.

Ruth got free chocolate for the

rest of her life.

And Nestlé created the

chocolate chip and published

Ruth’s recipe on the back of their

bags!

And us, well, we get to enjoy today a very

delicious treat.

Did you know that Americans like Chocolate

Chip Cookies so much that they

eat seven billion, yes, seven billion

every year?

That’s a lot of cookies, isn’t

it?

Now, let’s have a taste of this

yummy American treat and let’s say

together

“Thank you, Ruth Wakefield, for that

delicious mistake!”

Now, if you want the recipe for the

Original Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies, you, or your parent, can come to our first

Cooking Class and we will make

some!

(produced by Monica Cardoso and Alice Bello)