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The Origin of the Chocolate Chip Cookie Although there is not a consensus as to the details of the origin of the chocolate chip cookie, it is generally accepted that they originated at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts in 1933. According to one version of the story, Mrs. Whitman was trying to bake regular chocolate cookies and ran out of baker's chocolate so she broke up pieces of a Nestle's chocolate bar hoping it would melt into the mix. It did not work out that way and the chocolate chip cookie was born. In another version of the story, while Mrs. Whiteman was mixing up a batch of her well known sugar cookies, a Nestle's chocolate bar fell into the mixer and was broken up into pieces and mixed into the dough. Rather than throw the dough out, Mrs. Whitman, was talked into baking them anyway by George Boucher a former head chef at the Inn. Regardless of exactly how it happened, the cookies became known nationally as the Toll House Inn Cookie. Nestle' was so impressed with this new cookie that it began printing the recipe on the chocolate bar's wrapper. For years, bakers had to chop the chocolate bars up but finally in 1939 Nestle introduced Morsels, the pre-packaged chocolate chips. This further popularized the cookie and gave it its common name, the Chocolate Chip Cookie.

Contributed by Mark Bowman on March 18, 2008, at 11:41 PM UTC.

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