Food & Beverage

πŸͺ CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE Week 2025 – Mar 2-8

Chip, chip, hooray for calories worth counting on seven nights of chip-tacular bliss. Sweeten your week with the simple chip-tastic joy of biting into a baker’s dozen of warm, gooey chocolate chip cookies. Let’s get to baking & savoring its comforting flavors during morsel mania!

πŸ‘©β€πŸ³ CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE Week ORIGIN & HISTORY

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE Week celebrates the simple joy of biting into a warm, gooey chocolate chip cookie and savoring its comforting flavors the 1st full week in March. A delightful occasion dedicated to indulging in one of the most beloved treats – chocolate chip cookies! During this week, people bake, share, and enjoy these delicious cookies, from classic recipes to inventive twists.

The Toll House Inn

In 1930, Ruth Graves Wakefield and her husband bought a tourist lodge called the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts. As a talented chef, Ruth prepared all the food for the guests herself.

The Accidental Invention

One day in 1937, while making a batch of Butter Drop Do cookies (her own recipe similar to chocolate cookies), Ruth found herself without the necessary baker’s chocolate. In a moment of inspiration, or perhaps by accident, Ruth substituted semi-sweet chocolate pieces made by cutting up a Nestle chocolate bar instead. Unlike baking chocolate, the chopped pieces didn’t fully incorporate into the dough. The result was a cookie loaded with chocolate morsels that held their distinctive shape and texture.

An Instant Hit

The new creation was a massive hit with guests at the inn. Ruth called them β€œToll House Crunch Cookies” and they quickly gained popularity through word-of-mouth and by being mentioned in a Boston newspaper.

The Business Deal

Realizing their potential, Ruth struck a deal in 1939 with Nestle to print her recipe on their semi-sweet chocolate bar labels, becoming one of the first examples of product branding on food packaging.

Commercialization and Legacy

Nestle began manufacturing and selling the chocolate morsels specifically for baking under the named β€œNestle’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels” in 1939. The Wakefield/Toll House recipe boosted sales for Nestle immensely over time, and the two names β€œToll House Cookies” and β€œChocolate Chip Cookies” became ingrained in American culture and baking.

So what started as a creative baking swap by Ruth Wakefield at her Massachusetts inn became an accidental invention that forever changed cookies and led to the iconic, beloved chocolate chip cookie.

πŸ’™ RAISE Social Awareness

Use social media posts with the hashtags #NationalChocolateChipCookieWeek, #ChocolateChipCookies, #CookieTime, #BakingLove, #Cookies, #FoodHolidays, #MarchHolidays, #Holiday, #FindADayToLOVE, #iHEARTdays to support the importance of celebrating, promoting, and sharing with the world why you ❀️ CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE Week.

Future DATES for CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE Week

Year Dates
2024 Week of March 3
2025 Week of March 2
2026 Week of March 1
2027 Week of March 7
2028 Week of March 5
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