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)