I made pancakes and cookies using the ‘perfect’ chocolate chips designed by a Tesla engineer, and I wasn’t impressed
I tried using the chips in cookies and in pancakes and found that I needed to cut them up in order to achieve well-rounded treats.
Bakers have been using small chunks of chocolate — now commonly shaped like little dollops and called chips — for nearly a century.
Ruth Wakefield, who ran the Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, is credited with the invention of this iconic treat sometime around 1938. There are many different versions of the story of how she made her first batch, but the end result is still the same: Chocolate-chip cookies became an American classic.
Though cookie-dough brands like Pillsbury and Nestlé Toll House (the latter of which uses a recipe purchased from Wakefield) are considered classics and use the drop-shaped morsel, Tesla engineer Remy Labesque thought he could come up with something better. In 2020, he shared what he thought was a better shape that would ideally function perfectly in a cookie.
He worked with Dandelion chocolate to create what would become their signature chip for the brand’s cookies. They’re available for sale, so I wanted to try them out myself. (Dandelion is selling a…
