The Best Chocolate Chips For Baking Cookies (PHOTOS)

What would chocolate chip cookies be without chocolate chips? If it wasn't for Ruth Wakefield, who in 1937 chopped up a Nestle chocolate bar to make her special Toll House cookies, Nestle never would have gotten the idea to produce the chips, which launched in 1941. Since then, chocolate chips have become essential for chocolate chip cookies and many other recipes like brownies and cakes.

But chocolate chips have transformed over time. Not only do chips come in semisweet, they're also available in bittersweet, white and many flavorings like peanut butter, butterscotch and more. There are even different shapes and sizes, such chunks and minis. Or if you choose the gourmet route, you can find chocolate in different disc shapes, which are typically used by chocolate makers. See all the different chocolates you could use in chocolate chip cookies in the slideshow below -- you can even combine two or more of each to get a very unique cookie. Vote in the slideshow for your favorite.

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[IrieMoon]

01:56 PM on 06/12/2012

I use Nestle Milk Chocolate Chips for cookies all the time and have never had a problem with them. I've actually gotten many a marriage proposal after handing out my cookies.


Maybe I'm just good at working with milk chocolate.

[metusmetu]

08:07 PM on 06/10/2012

Toll House Cookies are thee best, HANDS DOWN!

[kimmiekayep]

06:30 PM on 06/10/2012

Hershey's Dark Chocolate morsels make that absolute BEST chocolate chip cookies! Just use the recipe on the back of the bag. They are RIDICULOUSLY good! Everyone that we serve them to think that there is some big secret family recipe behind them. They are surprised to find that it's nothing more than the Hershey's dark chips. They can be a little difficult to find. HEB usually carries them and Wel-Mart seasonally. Well worth the hunt and investment!

[Ann Hafer Brownlee]

11:07 AM on 06/10/2012

My son is highly allergic to all nuts and nut products so I have to be really careful what ingredients go into my cookies. Sadly, the only chocolate chips I can use are my local store brand which is Kroger. This is because all the name brands are marked with "processed in a facility that also processes nuts" or some such warning. Kroger's products are great though but I'm wishing we had more variety.....

[raidrmik67]

11:04 AM on 06/10/2012

The two keys to making quality chocolate chip cookies is to use real butter and REAL chocolate chips(not chocolate "flavored" chips).

A nice twist is to mix butterscotch with chocolate chips but not too many as it will over power the chocolate.

[tweeties1120]

08:08 AM on 06/10/2012

Dark chocolate chips make the best chocolate chip cookies.

[BobbsDobb]

06:26 AM on 06/10/2012

So, the flavor of the chocolate has nothing to do with the suitability for use? Just the melting characteristics?

Weird.

[Steve68112]

02:39 AM on 06/10/2012

The reason milk chocolate chips do not work well in chocolate chip cookies isn't because they melt too fast it is because they are too sweet and do not impart the proper chocolate flavor to the cookies. If you mix only a few of them with other kinds of chips it might be ok, but used by themselves the results will not be good.

[pleaseunlockyourcaps]

12:59 AM on 06/10/2012

IS THERE A LIST FOR THE BEST BACON?

[debbydrutz]

10:49 PM on 06/09/2012

Yeah, brown sugar!

[silentthepatriot]

09:45 PM on 06/09/2012

Guitard is the best, a chocolate liquor chip.

[Stepboy]

08:59 PM on 06/09/2012

The Right chip is the one you are in the mood for. The one you like at the moment. SIMPLE. Me I like them all.

[cozycall]

08:33 PM on 06/09/2012

Milk chocolate, broken Hershey bars, peanut butter chips,vanilla pudding mix, peanut butter,and butter, make good soft, chocolate chip cookies.Semi-sweet, and dark chocolate are not good, they are for old people.

[aar0tc]

09:23 PM on 06/09/2012

I'm Old People and only buy Milk Chocolate ANYTHING ! ! :-)

[silentthepatriot]

09:46 PM on 06/09/2012

Poor Dear, please try Guitard chips.

[joesog]

06:03 AM on 06/10/2012

Milk chocolate sucks, it's too sweet and it's for children. CHILD!

[Curlee]

11:47 PM on 06/16/2012

Agreed. It's dominant flavor is sugar, not chocolate. Which kind of defeats the purpose of eating chocolate.

[Steven John Williams]

07:56 PM on 06/09/2012

i like the recipe on the back of the toll house package. i use a bit more sugar though to make the cookies a little sweeter and flatter but thats up to you what you prefer. easy and come out awesome. make them every christmas.

[GreatGrand mama]

09:31 PM on 06/09/2012

do you use brown sugar also??? I do .. gives it a litte bit more flavor

[Steven John Williams]

07:55 PM on 06/09/2012

i made the mistake as a kid of biting into some bakers chocolate and got a very bitter surprise. lol.

[emmyjwalker]

09:48 PM on 06/09/2012

me too! my mom was baking and I begged her for some and even though she warned me I still begged her. when I bit into it I wished I never had begged her so much haha

[raidrmik67]

11:02 AM on 06/10/2012

ROFL...when I was a kid I found a "candy bar" in moms baking cabinet, looked just like a regular chocolate bar until I bit into it!

[metusmetu]

08:10 PM on 06/10/2012

Baker's Chocolate is the best for making chocolate cream pies, and German Chocolate Cake, ....from scratch of course,......they are to die for.