Ruth Graves Wakefield : the chocolate chip cookie

Ruth Graves Wakefield, inventor of
the chocolate chip cookie, was born 109
years ago this week. 

Smooth, crumbly and often crunchy too, candy treats are a passion of first-time bakers and experts. But the perfect and apparently apparent mixture of
semisweet candy parts and lovely, buttery money is actually the result of a cooking accident by a woman blessed this week, on May 17, in 1903. Ruth Plots Wakefield, owner of a Boston villa called the Cost House Inn, developed the candy processor dessert in the Thirties when she ran out of baker's candy while planning butter treats and decided to alternative cut-up parts of semisweet candy. Instead of reducing and mixing into the money as she would expect, the snacks managed their shape, but also became soft and frothy in the stove.