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Milk Chocolate Chips

Most of us associate milk chocolate with supermarket candy bars and foil-wrapped kisses, but does this sweet and creamy chocolate deserve a spot on your baking shelf, too?

|Published on Oct. 1, 2017

What We Learned

Which came first, the Toll House cookie or the chocolate chip? Surprisingly, it was the cookie. The original 1938 chocolate chip cookie recipe invented by the owners of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, called for chopped semisweet Nestlé chocolate. The cookies became so famous that Nestlé gave the owners a lifetime supply of chocolate in exchange for the right to print ...

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