The ORIGINAL Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe! (2024)

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What is the origin of Toll House chocolate chip cookies? ›

Today it's the most popular cookie in America, but the original Toll House Cookie, the first chocolate chip cookie, was invented right here in New England by Ruth Wakefield at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, during the 1930s.

Nestlé has recalled its Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bar because the snacks may contain wood fragments. The recall, announced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, is limited to two batches of the Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough "break and bake" Bar produced on April 24 and 25.

SUGAR, CHOCOLATE, MILKFAT, COCOA BUTTER, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVORS.

If your cookies repeatedly turn out flat, no matter the recipe, chances are your oven is too hot. Here's what's happening. The butter melts super quickly in a too-hot oven before the other ingredients have firmed up into a cookie structure. Therefore, as the butter spreads so does the whole liquidy cookie.

Wakefield wrote a cookbook, Toll House Tried and True Recipes, that went through 39 printings. Wakefield died in 1977, and the Toll House Inn burned down from a fire that started in the kitchen on New Year's Eve 1984.

These cookies will come out flat if too little flour is used. The original Toll House cookie recipe does not specify how they measure their flour. After extensive testing and trial and error, I determined the right amount of flour to use for the perfect Toll House chocolate chip cookies.

The dough contains margarine and fats in the formulation; therefore, it is important that your dough is well chilled (or frozen) prior to baking.

Why can't I eat your regular Toll House Cookie Dough raw? Our refrigerated cookie dough is not formulated to be consumed raw and must be baked before eating. We have several edible cookie dough products that are ready to enjoy right out of the container.

Chocolate chips: Unopened in the pantry, chocolate chips are good for two to four months. You can also keep them in the fridge for six to eight months or the freezer for two to three years if they're bound for a future batch of cookie dough.

Baking soda is typically used for chewy cookies, while baking powder is generally used for light and airy cookies. Since baking powder is comprised of a number of ingredients (baking soda, cream of tartar, cornstarch, etc.), using it instead of pure baking soda will affect the taste of your cookies.

How do you make cookies fluffy instead of flat? ›

Adjust leavening agents: Baking powder and baking soda are responsible for the rise and structure of cookies. If your cookies are too flat, try slightly increasing these leavening agents. Conversely, if your cookies are overly puffy and then collapse into flatness, it could be due to using too much leavening agent.

Toll houses were built as part of the system of road maintenance by Turnpike Trusts, whereby private trusts were empowered to stop the public highway with gates, bars and turnpikes. At these points, on average three or four miles apart, a toll was demanded for vehicular and animal traffic.

A tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a toll road, canal, or toll bridge.

As the Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe became popular, sales of Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate bar increased. Andrew Nestle and Ruth Wakefield struck a deal. Nestle would print the Toll House Cookie recipe on its packaging and Ruth Wakefield would have a lifetime supply of Nestle chocolate.

Popular lore has it that the cookie was first invented in the 1930s by accident. Their inventor, Ruth Wakefield, owned and managed the Toll House Inn along with her husband (ring a bell?). Rumor has it Ruth was attempting to make chocolate cookies for the inn when she ran out of baker's chocolate.