Ruth Graves Wakefield, inventor of the Chocolate Chip Cookie and Owner of the Toll House Inn and Restaurant, was born on June 17, 1903. In 1930, while making cookies, she discovered that she had run out of powdered baker’s chocolate, and substituted cut up pieces of Nestle’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar instead. She was surprised when the chocolate bar pieces did not melt into the cookie dough. Serving them to her guests as “Chocolate Chip” cookies, they became immediately popular.
