Chocolate Chip Cookies Nestle Recipe

1. Nestle Toll House Cookies Recipe
2. The Original Toll House Cookie Recipe, Plus The Famous Chocolate Chip Cookie's History
   1. The Best Gluten Free Toll House Cookies
3. Chocolate Chip Cookies A La Nestle By Ling Ling. A Thermomix ® Recipe In The Category Baking
   1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes: Nestle, Crisco Different But Both Good

Have you ever been strolling through the grocery store and spotted a recipe on the back of something you pulled off a shelf? 

Nick and I always wondered aloud to each other if some of these recipes were any good. We’ve been talking about trying different back of the box/bag/can/container/etc. recipes and reviewing them for years(!)

So we decided to start a series here on called Back of the Box Reviews. It will be a place to catalog our journey through the grocery aisles and kitchen to answer the question above.  We’ll share our own thoughts, but the final judgement will of course come from our 3 kids, the taste testers.  Our eldest Ben and his younger twin brother and sister, Freddie and Frankie.

Nestle Toll House Cookies Recipe

Whenever I share Back of the Box Reviews, it will be a collaboration between Nick and I. A different photography style, a different voice. Nick will be the one doing the cooking <-WHOA! The rest of the post are his words, so here goes!

“Phi knows what she’s doing in the kitchen and will often improvise, while I, on the other hand, am more of a “by the numbers” or “by the recipe, exactly” kind of cook.  She has definitely rescued me from some mis-prints, but I can also be a bit slow as I methodically cook something step-by-step, much to her frustration. 

We want to review the recipes as written, so I’ll be the one cooking and taking notes here, but Phi will share her thoughts on how she would tweak a given recipe or provide alternatives to various ingredients or methods.

The Original Toll House Cookie Recipe, Plus The Famous Chocolate Chip Cookie's History

We hope you enjoy this series, and if you have any recipes you’d like us to try from the back of a box, bottle, can, jar or bag, just let us know!

When we started this series, we immediately knew what the first recipe had to be. I don’t know if the Original NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe was the first “Back of the Box” Recipe, but it’s almost certainly the most popular.  Though I’ve definitely eaten and baked this recipe dozens* of times there were still a few pleasant surprises when we approached it with a more critical eye. (*pun intended).

For the most part this is an extremely straightforward chocolate chip cookie recipe.  Preheat your oven, beat your sugar and butter, add eggs, add the dry stuff, drop on a sheet and bake.  Boom! You’ve got some pretty tasty cookies!  However, I do really appreciate the language NESTLÉ® uses here.  Most experienced bakers would understand terminology like, “cream butter, ” but the recipe instead uses more layman’s style language like, “beat [sic] until creamy.”  I think this is a nice touch, and really recognizes that the author knows their audience.  Additionally, for whatever reason, I never noticed that NESTLÉ® offers two variations of the recipe on the bag with slight tweaks to make the cookies with and without nuts.  We really appreciated these options.

The Best Gluten Free Toll House Cookies

The preparation and baking process proved to be as simple as expected, in fact it was easy enough for our three year old to help.  We ended up making not only versions with and without nuts from the bag (we used walnuts), but additional M&M® and Pecan Turtle variants (included in the recipe section below).  The recipe showed itself to be easily adaptable to any filling substitutions you might want to make.  

I thought the cookies were great in all the ways you would expect. They land somewhere between crispy and chewy and hit all the expected nostalgia notes; with hints of butter, nuttiness and salt bouncing off the rich chocolate. Fresh out of the oven the original no nut version was as gooey and delicious as you want a classic chocolate chip cookie to be. However, after cooling I was surprised to find myself enjoying the walnut version most, especially as growing up we were a straight chocolate chips only house. The nuts add a nice depth to the flavor of the cookie that’s more prominent once cooled, with nuts adding a bit of textural variation.  Furthermore, the nut versions we made seemed to hold up better the next day maintaining a fluffier, softer quality, while the no nut versions seemed to harden up a bit.  

My mother always taught me to line a cookie sheet or grease it so that cookies don’t stick. I can honestly say that I have never baked a cookie on an un-greased baking sheet. When the back of the bag recipe said “drop onto un-greased baking sheets” I was skeptical, to say the least. My style of baking is to go with what I know. But Nick said we had to follow the instructions exactly, and so we did. We did not end up having to throw out any of our baking sheets, lol. Worked like a charm, and now I’m left wondering why I’ve been lining baking sheets. The cookies themselves were a decent chocolate chip cookie as one would expect (I happened to like the turtle variation and chocolate chip cookie with walnuts the best.) Also, I’m a firm believer that there’s no such thing as a bad chocolate chip cookie, so grab yourself a bag of Nestle Tollhouse semi-sweet chocolate chips and you’re a quick bake away from some cookies of your own.

Nestlé Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

Unsurprisingly all three kids loved these cookies, and you’d probably be even less surprised to hear that their favorite version was the M&M® version.  We even caught Ben climbing our pantry shelves to snitch a couple more cookies after they had been put away.

For high altitude baking: Increase flour to 2 1/2 cups. Add 2 tsp water with flour and reduce both granulated sugar and brown sugar to 2/3 cup each. Bake for 8-10 minutes. 

Did you make this recipe? Hashtag with us! Be sure to follow/tag @blog and hashtag #blog – we love to see what you’re cooking up!”How many of you grew up making the cookie recipe on the back of the yellow Nestle Toll House chocolate chip package?! It is THE chocolate chip recipe that started it all. Toll House Cookie Recipe is a total classic that is easy to make and turns out great every time!

Chocolate Chip Cookies A La Nestle By Ling Ling. A Thermomix ^® Recipe In The Category Baking

Everyone needs a chocolate chip cookie recipe that is tried and true and this one won’t disappoint. It is easy, legendary and tastes delicious.

I love knowing random factoids, so here is a good one for you! Do you know who invented the original chocolate chip cookie? Well, back in the 1930s, a woman named Ruth Wakefield ran the Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. She was making a batch of cookies when she decided to break pieces of Nestlé Semi-Sweet chocolate into the cookie dough. She was surprised when the chocolate didn’t melt but held it’s shape and gave the best texture to her cookies.

She sold the rights to her recipe to Nestlé for only $1.00! That is pure insanity right?! Little did she know that this would become the most popular cookie ever.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes: Nestle, Crisco Different But Both Good

I love to make a double or triple batch of cookies so we can eat one, share one and freeze one for later. Store uncooked cookie dough properly in an airtight container for up to 3 months. When you are ready to bake the dough simply take the dough from the freezer, warm to room temperature and bake as instructed.

To prevent having hard and burnt cookies, take them out of the oven just before they look done. You want them to be just barely golden brown. They will continue to bake for a couple of minutes on your baking sheet. But this little tip will drastically change your cookies for the better!

If you’ve tried thisToll House cookie recipeor any other recipe on Bless this Mess, then don’t forget torate the recipeand leave me a comment below! I would love to hear about your experience making it. And if you snapped some pictures of it, share it with me onInstagramso I can repost on my stories AND add your photo to your comment so that other can see your creation.

The Best Nestle Toll House Cookie Recipe • Love From The Oven

The original Toll House Cookie recipe from the back of the bag! This is the chocolate chip cookie recipe we grew up making; they are perfect!

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This Toll House Cookie Recipe has withstood the test of time! You only need everyday ingredients to make them and they turn out so yummy. Can’t wait for you to make a batch…or two!

Best Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

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