It’s National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — It’s a day to celebrate the serendipitous invention that is the chocolate chip cookie.

Friday is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!

Did you know the chocolate chip cookie was made by accident?

We have Ruth Graves Wakefield to thank for the tasty treat.

In 1937, Wakefield was baking at her family’s hotel called ‘The Tollhouse Inn.’

She planned to mix baker’s chocolate into the dough to make chocolate cookies.

But she didn’t have any so she used semi-sweet chocolate chips instead, thinking it would melt out evenly into the dough.