1. Pre-heat oven to 375˚
2. In a large bowl, incorporate dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, white sugar, brown sugar
3. In a separate bowl, stand mixer or food processor, combine wet ingredients including softened butter, vanilla and egg. Mix until well-incorporated with a smooth consistency
   
4. Combine wet and dry ingredients and blend until consistent
5. Add milk chocolate chips - blend until consistent
6. Roll into golf ball size – approximately 2 inches
7. Place on cookie sheet – 3-4 per row with sufficient room around each – try three first
8. Slightly flatten – with clean hands, the palm of your hand is fine
9. Cool a further 10 minutes on cooling rack.
10. Enjoy

The chocolate chip cookie recipe as we have come to know it is a modern day invention created by dietician, nutritionist and chef Ruth Wakefield in the 1930s who – along with her husband – owned the Toll House Inn in Whitman Massachusetts – thus making the original chocolate chip cookies recipe not chocolate chip cookies, but Toll House Cookies.

The reason they were not called chocolate chip cookies was because chocolate chips didn't in fact exist at that time and – as the story goes – Ms. Wakefield broke a Nestlé chocolate bar into small pieces. The popularity of her cookie recipe in fact caught the attention of Nestlé executives and a partnership was struck and Wakefield's recipe was printed on Nestlé chocolate bar wrappers. As the story goes, in return, she was gifted a lifetime supply of chocolate – poor thing. The official name of the cookies was "Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie".

As with many popular American recipes, the popularity of chocolate chip cookies increased through World War II as soldiers received them in their care packages from home.

A simple, easy classic cookie recipe, chocolate chip cookies have endured through generations and are bakery and grocery staples as well as being a comfort food essential for the home cook and baker with the addition of nuts along with other variations such as gluten-free chocolate chip cookies recipes.

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