Cookies may be one of the most favorite snacks in the world. They come in all shapes and sizes and people have been baking them for a very long time. Cookies also come in many different flavors. The most popular cookie in the world is the Oreo, but in the United States the favorite is the chocolate chip cookie. Cookies may have different names in different countries like biscuits, koekje, galletas or crisps. Whatever you call them, these baked, sweet treats make us smile.

Did you know that the chocolate chip cookie was a mistake? In the 1930s, a lady named Ruth Graves Wakefield was trying to make her popular butter drop cookies. She thought, "What if I make some chocolate cookies?" Ruth didn’t have any baking chocolate but she did have a chocolate candy bar. She chopped the candy bar up into tiny chips and mixed it in with the cookie dough. She thought the bits of candy bar would melt into the dough when the cookies baked, but her experiment didn’t quite work like she thought it would. People loved the new butter cookies with little morsels of chocolate, and the rest is history.