Friday, September 18, 2009

Internaltional Food Feast - American Toll House Cookies

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Disasters are always common when it comes to cooking. But one such disaster that turned to be the most favorite invention - The Chocolate Chip Cookies. :)

The famous chocolate chip cookies was a accidental invention by Ruth Wakefield who owned the popular restaurant called the Toll house inn at Massachusetts, United States.

Wakefield was an expert in making chocolate cookies and on one fine day when she was running out of baker's chocolate she substituted for it broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate from Nestle, thinking that it would melt and mix into the batter. It clearly did not, and the chocolate chip cookie was born. Wakefield sold the recipe to Nestle in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate chips. :)



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One other note of history says that the head cook of the Toll house inn, Boucher said that the vibrations from a large Hobart electric mixer dislodged bars of Nestle's chocolate stored on the shelf above the mixer so they fell into the sugar cookie dough it was mixing, then broke them up and mixed the pieces into it. He claimed to have overcome Wakefield's impulse to discard the dough as too badly ruined to waste effort baking them, leading to the discovery of the popular combination.

What so ever, I love chocolate chip cookies too much that I praise the accident :)



Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Soda-bicarbonate - 1/2 tsp
Butter - 1/3 cup
Chocolate chips - why measure?? as much as you like ;)
Peanuts(unsalted but roasted) - 50 gms
Eggs - 2



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Method:

Put the eggs and sugar in a bowl and beat till the mixture becomes pale brown.

Sift the flour and soda bicarbonate. Pour over the egg sugar mixture and mix it well.

Add butter, peanuts and chocolate chips to it and stir to mix together.

Scoop out the cookies mixture with a spoon and roll into a ball with your hands and place on greased tray at least 5 cms. apart. Flatten the balls with your hands to make round shape.

Preheat the oven at 200 degree Celsius.

Bake the cookies at 200 degree Celsius for 10-15 min, until lightly browned. (Time subjected to your oven)

Place on wire rack to cool for 5 min.

Chocolate chip cookies is ready to eat. :) Serve it with tea/coffee. :)

Enjoy making and enjoy eating :)



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Written by:
Nithya
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35 comments:

Parita said...

Hmm interesting..i wish i could get lifetime supply of chocolate chips :)
Cookies look hmmmmm delicious dear :)

Unknown said...

Cutie cycle with cookies on it,looks so so nice!

ST said...

Drooling over cookies...Eye catching pics...

Menaga Sathia said...

super nithya!!

VineelaSiva said...

Wow nice pic and cookies.The pic is very colourful.I love th ecycle dear.

Saraswathy Balakrishnan said...

very appealing decoration my dear..the cookies are perfect for evening time with a steaming cup of coffee:)

Pavithra Elangovan said...

Hey Cookies looks yummy nithi.. and cycle is so cute.. Cookies on the cycle so sweet nice one...

Unknown said...

Lovely cookies, looks so beautiful in a cute cycle.

Raje said...

Nithya,
Fabulous clicks and the cookies look super delicious!

Sailaja Damodaran said...

Nice cookie....i love the click

Preeti Kashyap said...

Great Clicks! They look heavenly!

Unknown said...

cute one nice recipe love those chocolate chip cookies so beautiful pic.

dsdsds said...

Interesting history.. New recipes are always the side effects of accidents and disasters.. Love the cart.. Bet it should have tasted good..

Unknown said...

Yummylicious & Prefect cookies!!! I liked your creative presentation...
Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving nice comments...I will try to particpate in the your event..

Palidor said...

The cookies look delectable. Your presentation, as always, is stunning!

Priya Suresh said...

Fabulous cookies...Cute cycle!

Sandhya Hariharan said...

Wow...superb.. Nithy...a lovely clicks.. feel like grabbing it from my screen.

Sandhya Hariharan said...

Collect U'r Award dear ..Its waiting in my blog for you..

PriyaRaj said...

Woww u have a extra-ordinary skill in photography dear ....1 plate cookies parcel ....

Sanghi said...

Superb cookies.. that pink cart is so cute..! Good presentation!

Trish said...

What a beautiful shot there girl! Wonderful photography! Interesting info at the beginning of your post...thanks for sharing.

Shri said...

Gorgeous..I am out of words actually..Very elegantly presented!
All along I seem to have gotten the wrong history of CCC-I thought it was nuts that Ruth always made the cookies with and then she used chocolate..Thanks to you for the clarfn!

priya said...

superb cookies.........superb presentation!!...yummy!

Gita Jaishankar said...

Very interesting story...I love your presentation Nithya...great job girl :)

priya said...

Hi dear,

Please collect ur award from my blog!

Abhilash Pillai said...

chocolates.... mm....

Hey ! once we were taken to a chocolate factory from school and we were allowed to take the max chocolates we can take from there...
Bags and covers were not allowed...

We filled all our pockets, shirts,socks shoes and all that we could fill .. with chocolates....

Ate a lot of chocolates that day...

Interesting na ... :D

Valarmathi Sanjeev said...

Cookies looks delicious, cute cycle. Fantastic picture.

Purva Desai said...

Cookies looks irresistibly tempting

Unknown said...

Loved the way you have photographed the cookies.Your photo props are too good.

Sh... said...

The pictures are so mesmerising that I forgot to look at the recipe. One of the best clicks. Keep it up!!!

pria said...

Wow nithya, yours is simply rocking!!!
Loved your recipes the cookies everything...hmmm...too good :)
Following u frm now on ..

Latha said...

Wow!!!am mesmerised by the pictures.....Great presentation....Lovely recipes.

Treat and Trick said...

The cookies look delicious and your photos really impressed me...


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Unknown said...

Hey, Can we substitute the eggs with something else???

Nithya said...

@Kalash - replace the eggs with half tsp of baking powder. It will still taste good. These cookies are a little soft. If you skip the eggs they will turn out to be crispy. Thats the difference. However you make it, it will be good :)

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