Chocolate Chip Cookie School

03/22/2025

Advanced chocolate studies!

Chocolate. The word evokes images of rich desserts, steaming bowls of hot cocoa, and artistic displays of delicious truffles. The so-called

08/15/2024

RIP Wally Amos. His innovation, perseverance and love of laughter and educating kids has been such an inspiration.

Did you know he lost the rights to when he sold his company? So many lessons learned and shared.

With a background as a talent agent, his aunt’s recipe and a winning personality, he built one of the world’s best-known brands of baked goods.

03/06/2024

Thank you Cookie Monster!

The muppet’s rant against cookie prices sparked political reactions and a response from the White House.

11/04/2023

Did you know they grow sugar in Japan??? This Japanese brown sugar is remarkably unsweet and earthy - no sweet aftertaste!
It calls for a brown sugar tasting!!!

05/16/2023

The only recipe for happiness you'll ever need, best printed in color. Thanks to the genius of Sandra Boynton

03/22/2023

A perfect rainy day science class discussion topic. :)

A whole team, if you want to study how to twist the cookie apart so creme sticks to both wafers

12/22/2022

Extreme vanilla experiments - it’s time we made cookies with vanilla butter!

We tested and found that this homemade vanilla extract is better (and cheaper!) than store-bought.

12/15/2022

Throughline takes you through the horrible history of sugar, just in time to ponder sugar plum fairies...!

In the 1970s, a savvy CEO named Dwayne Andreas hit on an idea: take surplus corn from America's heartland, process it into a sweetener, and start selling it to anyone who would buy, all in the name of patriotism. Within a decade, high fructose corn syrup dominated the U.S. sweetener market; today, A...

05/15/2022

Sunday is a perfect day to celebrate National Chocolate Chip day which is May 15 every year.

Chocolate Chip Cookie School teaches critical thinking through cookies.

Here are a few fun questions to ponder as you bake or teach!

Why is there a national chocolate chip day?

Who invents these national holidays?

How many varieties of chocolate chips are there?

When were chocolate chips invented and why?

How are chocolate chips different from chopping up chocolate to go into a cookie?

How are the different types of chocolate chips different from each other?

What are the different ingredients that different brands put into the chocolate chips that they make?

02/10/2022

The ultimate cookie economics lesson learned by the Girl Scouts

This year, scouts trying to meet their targets have felt the effects of supply-chain woes and price increases; ‘Do you have cookies you can spare?’

01/10/2022

The economics of butter — a hard lesson for cookie lovers!

Decreased cow herds, a driver and worker shortage, and higher packaging costs have led to a huge price hike for the dairy product.

08/04/2021

Nobody says it better than Sandra Boynton 🍪