Chocolate News
The Crazy Origin of Chocolate Chips
THE DAILY MEAL The chocolate chip cookie was actually invented before the chocolate chip — how’s that for a bizarre twist of fate! That’s right, the chocolate chip wasn’t actually invented until 1941, a full four years after Ruth Graves Wakefield decided to add cut-up pieces of a Nestle chocolate bar to her cookie dough and created the original Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe that appears on the back of every bag of semi-sweet chocolate morsels. This fail-safe recipe was created by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1937 and sold to Nestle for one dollar and a lifetime supply of chocolate.Krispy Kreme Turned Four Of Its Classic Donuts Chocolate For The First Time
Four classic donuts are being “choco-fied,” as Krispy Kreme calls it. The Chocolate Glaze Collection, in stores from January 14 to January 27, includes these four flavors: Chocolate Glazed Cake Batter Donut, Chocolate Glazed Raspberry Filled Donut, Double Chocolate Glazed Kreme Filled Donut, and Chocolate Glazed Oreo Cookies and Kreme Donut.
New Dark Chocolate Oreos hit shelves in a store near you
Nabisco released the Dark Chocolate Oreos. The company says the new cookie will help fans “embrace these colder, darker days.” And unlike recent Oreo releases, this one won’t be limited edition. It will be available year-round.
Long Island, NY kids rank hot chocolate from popular chains
73 students from the fourth and fifth grades at Idle Hour Elementary School tasted 7-Eleven, Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts and McDonald’s hot chocolate. And the winner- Dunkin’ Donuts! Last place went to Starbucks (“…because it was just too dark”).
Girl Scout cookies return and new this year is gluten-free Caramel Chocolate Chip
Say hello to Caramel Chocolate Chip. The new chewy treat, first announced in August, is made with semi-sweet chocolate chips, caramel and a hint of sea salt, according to the Girl Scouts. The last cookie to be introduced was the S’more for the 2017 sales season, though it actually debuted in 2016 on National S’mores Day, Aug. 10.