Chocolate Chip Cookies are one the most popular cookies ever. I love them when they are fresh out of the oven as do my kids and my husband.
Chocolate Chip Cookies are drop style cookie. They traditionally consist of a dough with brown sugar and white sugar and butter and semi-sweet chocolate chips in it.
Chocolate chip cookies have many variations. Some are m&m’s, oatmeal, and nuts. Some variations include white chocolate too, like white chocolate with macadamia nut for example.
Mrs. Fields make a cookie-wich that I love. It is two cookies with frosting in the middle! Talk about sugar rush and calories! Thankfully for me our Mrs. Fields stand is no longer at the local mall. 
A lady by the name of Ruth Graves Wakefield is the one whom made this great treat. We owe her thanks. The famous name she gave them was “Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies”.
The reason for the Toll House name is Ruth Graves Wakefield had purchased an inn called the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts with her husband, Kenneth Wakefield.
Built on a toll road, the inn was a toll booth of sorts, a restaurant and an inn. Folks would pay tolls there like we pat tolls today.
In the 1940’s Ruth Graves Wakefield wrote a cookbook based on the years cooking at the inn. It was a best seller called “Ruth Wakefield’s Recipes: Tried and True”.
The Toll House Inn was sold in the 1960’s. It went through some changes, was sold in the 1970’s, restored to it’s original form. And it burned down in the 1980’s.
Ruth Graves Wakefield lived til 1977. Her grave is in Massachusetts.
In 1997 it was proposed that the Chocolate Chip Cookie be the official cookie of Massachusetts.
Each year billions of variations of this cookie are eaten by folks around the world. We owe Ruth Graves Wakefield a big thank-you for such a classic treat.
