Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

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The Best Nestle Toll House Cookie Recipe. How to make the classic Nestle Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. This is one of the most popular soft chocolate chip cookie recipes in the world!

As soon as I could stand on a stool, I was making chocolate chip cookies.

My Mom would bring out her large yellow bowl and I knew it was time to make a batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies.

We always made the Toll House cookie recipe on the back of the bright yellow bag and it began my love for chocolate chip cookies. They are the quintessential classic chocolate chip cookie.

My Mom is quite the baker and I will never forget running in the door from school and smelling fresh chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. It was my favorite scent ever!

This Nestle cookie recipe is so reminiscent of my childhood. Did you eat Nestle Toll House cookies growing up? Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day so let’s celebrate it by making some soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies!

“It all started back in 1939. Ruth Wakefield, who ran the successful Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, was mixing a batch of cookies when she decided to add broken pieces of Nestlé Semi-Sweet chocolate into the recipe expecting the chocolate to melt. Instead, the semi-sweet bits held their shape and softened to a delicate creamy texture and the chocolate chip cookie was born.

Ruth’s ‘Toll House Crunch Cookie’ recipe was published in a Boston newspaper and her invention of the chocolate chip cookie quickly became the most popular cookie of all-time.”

These Toll House Cookies Recipe call for only 10 ingredients.

This is the easiest chocolate chip cookie recipe and is always a classic!

Fold in flour and stir together. Do not overmix or it will create too much gluten, which will result in a tough cookie!

Stir in chocolate morsels and nuts, if using nuts.

Drop onto parchment paper lined baking sheets by rounded tablespoon. I suggest using light-colored baking sheets.

Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until a light golden brown color. Do not overbake as the cookies will set up after being removed from the oven.

Cool on the baking sheet for 2 minutes and then remove to wire racks to cool completely.

There are a few reasons why your cookies may be too flat. I will share some suggestions:

Since oven temperatures can vary, the baking time listed in a recipe is only a guide. Check the cookies 2 minutes before the listed baking time, to check for doneness.

For high altitude baking, increase flour to 2 1/2 cups. Add 2 teaspoons of water with flour and reduce both granulated sugar and brown sugar to 2/3 cup each. Reduce baking time and bake cookies for 8-10 minutes.

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Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.