Easy and Delicious Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

A Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe? Those who come across this delicious recipe might be a bit perplexed. After all, aren’t Toll House Cookies available in a premade dough that you can bake in the oven? Many think this is the case, but the truth is, there's a recipe for these cookies that predates the premade dough so many of us use today. And isn't making a cookie recipe from scratch — or any recipe for that matter — the best way to go? Read on to learn more about this iconic recipe and then grab your ingredients to make it yourself!

The Happy Accident of Chocolate Chip Cookies

To start, the first chocolate chip cookies were made by accident when a woman named Ruth Wakefield of Massachusetts was making cookies and decided to add a bar of Nestle chocolate chips to the batter. She thought that by doing this the cookies would turn into chocolate cookies, but instead, they resulted in what we now know as chocolate chip cookies instead.

The recipe was made famous when published in a Boston area paper named after the Tollhouse Inn restaurant Wakefield owned with her husband. Nestle then took Wakefield's recipe to the next level when the company decided to sell its chocolate chips broken up as morsels rather than in the bar form it was initially sold in. It wasn’t until much later that Nestle decided to come out with premade and frozen dough so that making the cookies would be even easier.

Those looking to return to a simpler time and enjoy the wholesome taste of homemade Toll House cookies will enjoy this recipe. This is the famous Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, the one moms have been baking for decades.

Nestle Toll House Cookies

Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 3/4 cup granulated white sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups (12-ounce package) Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
• 1 cup chopped nuts

Directions:

1. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl and mix ingredients well.

2. In a separate larger bowl, beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla.

3. Add eggs one at a time into the mixture, beating well after each addition.

4. Gradually beat in flour mixture into the wet mixture.

5. Stir in chocolate morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.

6. Bake in preheated 375 degrees Fahrenheit oven for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown.

7. Let stand for 2 minutes and then remove to wire racks to cool completely.

While baking may be intimidating for some, it doesn't get easier than following this simple recipe to get delicious, gooey cookies. This is also the perfect recipe to make with loved ones. And now that you know the history of chocolate chip cookies, consider telling that story to young children while they help you bake the cookies. Happy baking!

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