Thank you, Ruth Graves Wakefield!!!! A chocolate chip cookie is the perfect marriage of a chopped-up chocolate bar and a basic cookie recipe. We wonder if anyone ever told her she was a genius. Eighty-plus years later and people can’t get enough. There is still no other cookie that is more loved than a classic chocolate chip cookie. This drop cookie features chocolate morsels as its superpower ingredient. This United States 1938 original is still one of our favorites.