Chocolate Chip

Chocolate Chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape. They are available in numerous size, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1cm in diamter. Many sizes are available depending on preference. Chocolate chips are a required in chocolate chip cookies, which were invented in 1933 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in the town of Whitman, Massachsetts added cut-up chunks of sweet Netle chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. The cookies were a huge success, and wakefield reached an agreement with Nestle to add her recipe to the chocolate bar's packaging in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate. Initially, netle included a small chopping tool with the chocolate bars, but in 1939 they started selling the chocolate in chip (or "morsel") form. The nestle brand tool house cookies is named for the inn.