Chocolate Chip Day is celebrated on May 15 and everybody loves chocolate chips. They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually less than 1 cm in diameter. Today, 25% of all the cookies baked in the United States are chocolate chip.
Chocolate chips are a required ingredient in chocolate chip cookies, which were invented in 1937 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to a cookie recipe.
Chocolate chips are very popular as a baking ingredient in the United States and the chocolate chip cookie is regarded as a quintessential American dessert. Chocolate chips are also available in Europe, Australia, and other parts of the world.
