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Chocolate chip
Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are a required ingredient for making chocolate chip cookies, and legend has it that they were invented in the 1930s when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn near Whitman, Massachusetts substituted semi-sweet cut-up chunks of a Nestlé chocolate bar in a cookie recipe. Today, chocolate chips are widely available as a baking ingredient in the United States. In much of the rest of the world, bakers who wish to use chocolate chips in their recipes can get the same effect by buying an ordinary chocolate bar and cutting it up.
The Toll House brand of Nestlé is named for Ms. Wakefield.
An estimated seven billion chocolate chip cookies are consumed in the United States each year, making it the nation's most popular sort of cookie.
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