Toll House cookie

Classic chip-studded sweet

A Toll House cookie is a chocolate chip cookie—the original version, named after the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts where Ruth Wakefield invented it in the 1930s.

The name appears on Nestlé packaging and in older recipes, though most Americans now just say chocolate chip cookie.

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Family

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G