Were Cookies Made by Accident?

The chocolate chip cookie was created by accident.
In the 1930s, Ruth Wakefield, owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, added broken chocolate bar pieces into her cookie batter thinking that they would melt. Instead, the classic dessert was born.

How was the cookie invented?

The Origin of the Cookie

The first cookies are thought to be test cakes bakers used to test the oven temperature. They date back as early as 7th Century A.D. Persia which is now Iran. They were one of the first countries to grow and harvest sugar cane.

Was the cookie an accident?

The creation of the chocolate-chip cookie was NO accident: Cook who made the first batch was trying to improve old recipe and didn't accidentally spill morsels into the mixer according to popular legend. There are two popular stories about how the chocolate-chip cookie was invented by Ruth Wakefield in 1938.

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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