National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day is on August 4.
Don't tell your kids what's coming; just wake them up in the morning, cancel homeschool for the day, and tell them you're going to make cookies, eat cookies, read books, play games, and do anything else that strikes your fancy along the way.
Five Facts About Chocolate Chip Cookies
• In their lifetime, the average American eats 18,928 cookies.
• Ruth Graves Wakefield made the first chocolate chip cookie in 1938. Her husband ran the Tool House Inn. Have you ever had "Toll House" cookies? Nestle bought the name's rights. And you know what happened next!
• The first name for chocolate chip cookies was "Butterdrop Do Cookies."
• The world's largest chocolate chip cookie was 101 feet wide and weighed 40,000 pounds. It was made in 2003 in Flat Rock, North Carolina, by The Immaculate Baking Company.
• It's the best cookie in America. 53 percent of American adults would rather have chocolate chip cookies than peanut butter cookies (16 percent), oatmeal cookies (15 percent), or any other kind.
The Best Recipe For Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
• 1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
• 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 stick butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 cups Crisped Rice Cereal (Rice Krispies)
• Half-sweet chocolate chips, 1 cup
Instructions:
1. Turn the oven on to 350°F.
2. Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. Using an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until they are light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; mix well. Add the flour mixture and mix just until it comes together. Mix in the chocolate chips and cereal. Put about 2 inches between each tablespoon of cookie dough on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper.
3. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the edges are golden brown. Cool the cookies for 3 minutes on the baking sheet. Place on a cooling rack and let cool all the way.
Give Cookies To Other People
• Once your kids have made cookies, it would be nice to give them to other people.
• Give a few dozen to the fire and police departments in your area.
• Deliver to neighbors
• Go to a nearby nursing home and take your cookies there.
• Have a chocolate chip cookies and milk social with your friends.
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