The invention of the renowned Toll House Cookie dates back to 1939 with Ruth Wakefield running the successful Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. While Wakefield was experimenting one day, she chopped up a bar of Nestlé ® Semi-Sweet Chocolate into tiny bits and added them to her cookie dough. And then, voilà! Instead of melting through the cookie as she expected, the chocolate bits retained their shape, softening to a delicately creamy texture. From there, the Chocolate Chip Cookie was born. Wakefield’s “Toll House Crunch Cookie” recipe was then published in a Boston newspaper and quickly became the trending cookie recipe. Which is exactly why Nestlé