SHORTBREAD COOKIES CHOCOLATE CHIP RECIPES

In the 1930s, Ruth Wakefield, the inventor of the chocolate chip cookie, ran the Toll House Inn, a popular restaurant in eastern Massachusetts, with her husband. Using an ice pick, Wakefield broke a semisweet chocolate bar into little bits, mixed them into brown-sugar dough, and the chocolate chip cookie was born. In 1939, she sold Nestlé the rights to reproduce her recipe on its packages (reportedly for only $1) and was hired to write recipes for the company, which supposedly supplied her with free chocolate for life. This recipe is very close to Mrs. Wakefield's original (hers called for a teaspoon of hot water and 1/2-teaspoon-sized cookies), and the one you'll still find on the back of every yellow bag of Nestlé chocolate chips.

Provided by The New York Times

Total Time 30 minutes

Yield 5 dozen

Number Of Ingredients 10

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http//schema.org, Calories 94, UnsaturatedFatContent 2 grams, CarbohydrateContent 12 grams, FatContent 5 grams, FiberContent 0 grams, ProteinContent 1 gram, SaturatedFatContent 3 grams, SodiumContent 49 milligrams, SugarContent 8 grams, TransFatContent 0 grams

With only a few ingredients, these butter shortbread cookies are so simple to prepare. —Pattie Prescott, Manchester, New Hampshire

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Total Time 40 minutes

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Yield 16 cookies.

Number Of Ingredients 4

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : Calories 183 calories, FatContent 12g fat (7g saturated fat), CholesterolContent 31mg cholesterol, SodiumContent 2mg sodium, CarbohydrateContent 18g carbohydrate (6g sugars, FiberContent 0 fiber), ProteinContent 2g protein.