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squares of baking chocolate to the blond batter, but she realized her baking cabinet was out of the ingredient. The closest substitute at her disposal was semi-sweet chocolate bars from the Nestlé company. Continuing to improvise, Ruth used an icepick to break the chocolate into pea-sized bits, which today would be recognized as the cookie's staple, chocolate "chips." As opposed to melting and disseminating across the cookie, the bits maintained their chunky form as they baked. Inn visitors loved the revolutionary good and the novel dessert created an influx of visitors. It became so popular that it was featured in newspapers, and the
Wakefields received countless letters from people requesting the recipe, and the Toll House Cookie became the most popular dessert of the time.
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