Chocolate Chip Cookie Showdown Part One

Chocolate Chip Cookies to me are very homey.

When I was homesick at collage or just feeling down, it made me feel better to bake some chocolate chip cookies and relax with a movie. They are simple, easy to make, and for a while I practically had the recipe from the back of the chocolate chip bag memorized. And it always seemed like no other recipe for chocolate chip cookies, or even the premade cookie doughs or kits, seemed to compare.

Is it pure nostalgia? Or is it really that Nestle's cookie recipe, specifically found on the chocolate chip packaging, is the best recipe for them around?

Well after some very quick research, i.e. Wikipedia, to get some background insight on Chocolate Chip Cookies, I learned that the original recipe was created around 1938 and used Nestle brand chocolate(1). And not only that, but the women who invented the cookie, Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue Brides, even gave their recipe to Nestle in exchange for a supply of chocolate (1).

This really was interesting to learn and made me want to try the original recipe for the cookies that the article had listed. How does it compare to the Nestle recipe I love so much? 

So here is what I am going to do:

So to get an idea of this, I am going to bake both the original 1930's recipe and the modern recipe and conduct a blind taste test with some people. Then to continue the Chocolate Chip Cookie Showdown, I will take whichever recipe is picked and pit it against an 'award winning' recipe, then likely a store bought cookie mix.

But in this first round, we will see which I like more and how the recipes compare, as well as what friends think. My guess is that people will choose the modern Nestle Recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies as their favorite because it is likely the most familiar recipe to people. 

The Differences in the Recipes:

1938 Recipe	Bag Recipe	Differences
1 1/2 Cups Shortening/Butter	1 Cup Butter/Shortening	½ cups
1 1/8 cups White Sugar	¾ cup White Sugar	3/8 cups
1 ⅛ cups brown sugar	¾ cup Brown sugar	⅜ cups
1 ½ tsp vanilla	1 tsp vanilla	½ tsp
3 eggs	2 eggs	1 egg
1 ½ tsp salt	1 tsp salt	½ tsp
1 ½ tsp baking soda	1 tsp baking powder	Baking soda vs Powder
3 ⅛ cups flour	2 ¼ cups flour	⅞ cups
1 3/4 cups (chopped up nestle chocolate) chocolate chips	2 cups chocolate chips	¼ cups

I converted some measurements to make the math for the differences easier.

If you want to see me bake the recipes and compare them more in-depth, Check out My YouTube Video on these recipes!

For the taste test results, I will be sharing them in Part 2! So keep checking in here and on Instagram, were I will be announcing the results early as well as the next recipe to try!

Sources:

1. Wikipedia contributors. (2021, April 7). Chocolate chip cookie. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18:43, May 30, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chocolate_chip_cookie&oldid=1016516473