America's favorite chocolate chips for over 70 years - classic, delicious, and versatile.

PARENT COMPANY Nestlé Baking is a division of Nestlé USA, which is owned by Nestlé S.A. of Vevey, Switzerland - the world's largest food company. First Offered in 1939, NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels are the original chocolate chip and the best-selling chocolate morsels in America.

Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels stand ready to be used in any of your favourite baking recipes. For anyone who isn't accomplished baking aficionados like we are, semi-sweet chocolate is a form of dark chocolate.

Ruth Wakefield It all started back in 1939. Ruth Wakefield, who ran the successful Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, was mixing a batch of cookies when she decided to add broken pieces of Nestlé Semi-Sweet chocolate into the recipe expecting the chocolate to melt.

They are specifically made to keep their shape in the heat of the baking process. This is done by using waxes and other extra solidifying ingredients. Chocolate morsels, however, are more natural chocolate and will melt when baked.

Chocolate chips or chocolate morsels are small chunks of sweetened chocolate, used as an ingredient in a number of desserts (notably chocolate chip cookies and muffins), in trail mix and less commonly in some breakfast foods such as pancakes.

Wakefield's confection was known originally as the Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookie, after the Toll House Inn, a popular restaurant that she ran with her husband in eastern Massachusetts.

Origin. Chocolate chips were created with the invention of chocolate chip cookies in 1937 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. (The Nestlé brand Toll House cookies is named for the inn.)

They are specifically made to keep their shape in the heat of the baking process. This is done by using waxes and other extra solidifying ingredients. Chocolate morsels, however, are more natural chocolate and will melt when baked.

Most people call them “chocolate chips,” but Nestle refers to them as “morsels.” The term “chip” appears to have come from the late 19th century English tea biscuit recipe for “Chocolate Chips” – however, the term referred to the biscuit shape, and there were no chocolate morsels in the recipe.

The Toll House Inn was an inn located in Whitman, Massachusetts, established in 1930 by Kenneth and Ruth Graves Wakefield. The Toll House chocolate chip cookies are named after the inn.

Chocolate chips or chocolate morsels are small chunks of sweetened chocolate, used as an ingredient in a number of desserts (notably chocolate chip cookies and muffins), in trail mix and less commonly in some breakfast foods such as pancakes.