The original chocolate chip cookie was the invention of Ruth Graves Wakefield, who, with her husband, ran the popular Toll House Restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, in the 1930s. After being in the ...

Vivian Sykes of Baltimore was looking for a cookie recipe she used to make in the 1950s. The recipe came from the wrapper of a Baby Ruth candy bar, and the cookies had the chopped-up candy in them.

Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times have been dominated by white men. With Overlooked, we’re adding the stories of remarkable women. Around the time Ruth Wakefield began making a chocolate ...

This recipe was adapted from the wrapper of a Baby Ruth candy bar in the 1950s. It works best to bake the cookies on parchment paper and transfer them, paper and all, to the cooling rack. Sift ...