Friday Facts: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Friday Facts! a new weekly blog series focusing on random, interesting, neato facts about things, and stuff, and junk.
Today I'm going to give you the quick rundown on: THE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE!
Delicious.
1. Did you know the chocolate chip cookie was created by accident? In 1937, Ruth Graves Wakefield (owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts) added broken pieces of semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar into her cookie batter, thinking the chocolate would melt and give her more dough to work with. Instead, she created the first batch of chocolate chip cookies. So I guess not all accidents are a mistake!
2. Want to know what chip melts best at which temperature?
For the milk and/or white chocolate chip: don't exceed 115 °F or they will burn!
For dark chocolate chips: don't exceed 120 °F or they will burn!
Between 104°F and 113 °F (40 and 45 °C) is when a chip melts best, and starts this process at about 90°F.
... or you can just follow a recipe.
3. May 15th of every year is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!
Woo Hoo!
Marking my calendar and booking the time off of work now.
4. The worlds largest chocolate chip cookie was created in 2003, by the The Immaculate Baking Company in Flat Rock, North Carolina. This cookie was approx. 102 feet in diameter, weighed over 38,000 pounds, and took over 30,000 eggs to create!
5. Give your cookie a flavor boost! Preparing the dough beforehand, and then letting it sit in the refrigerator for 24 to 36 hours before baking.
Bon Appetit!
6. Lastly, and not to spoil your childhood, but!
The chocolate chip cookies Cookie Monster eats on Sesame Street are actually rice cakes with brown dots painted on.
How do I know? David Borgenicht explains it in his book Sesame Street Unpaved. Apparently real cookies made the Muppet too greasy.
That's it for this week, I hope you enjoyed these facts about the chocolate chip cookie.
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