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Chocolate chip cookies - chewy inside & crispy on the outside.

One of the most cutest sights in my house is to watch our little man walk into our kitchen with his little nose held up high to smell the freshly baked warm chocolate chip cookies. Then he patiently waits for it to cool down so that he can grab them and bite into them. And it is simply adorable to see him eat those cookies and having the melted chocolate all over his mouth. It is his favourite of all the treats in the world.  Ruth Graves Wakefield invented the Toll House brand of chocolate chip cookies. She worked as a dietitian and lectured on food until 1930 when she and her husband bought a tourist lodge in Whitman, Massachusetts. The tourist lodge was named the Toll House Inn. Ruth cooked and served all the food for the meals served to the guests at the Inn and became popular for her desserts. One day while making cookies, she realized she was out of an ingredient for the recipe she was using. She had run out of baker's chocolate, so she substituted it with a se