Cookies (Chocolate Chips Cookies)

Next month we will prepare our typical Santa Lucia Biscuits. In the meantime I try to cook the American Cookies as alternative. Very good alternative!

A bit of History
The chocolate chip cookie was invented by Ruth Graves Wakefield. She owned the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts, a very popular restaurant that featured home cooking in the 1930s. Ruth Wakefield stated that she deliberately invented the cookie.
A different version of events says that Wakefield is said to have been making chocolate cookies and on running out of regular baker’s chocolate, substituted broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate from Nestlé thinking that they would melt and mix into the batter. They did not and the chocolate chip cookie was born.
Although the Nestlé’s Toll House recipe is widely known, every brand of chocolate chips, or “semi-sweet chocolate morsels” in Nestlé parlance, sold in the U.S. and Canada bears a variant of the chocolate chip cookie recipe on its packaging. Almost all baking-oriented cookbooks will contain at least one type of recipe. To honor the cookie’s creation in the state, on July 9, 1997, Massachusetts designated the chocolate chip cookie as the Official State Cookie, after it was proposed by a third-grade class from Somerset, Massachusetts.

Pay attention: this recipe is not suitable for those are going on a diet!

Ingredients and Directions
This recipe is very easy and quick (just 10 minutes).
Download PDF: cookies_2014_en