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Today’s Foodie Friday question is pretty simple: what do chocolate chip cookies and molten chocolate cake have in common (other than the chocolate)? Given today’s headline, this really shouldn’t be too difficult. Right! They were both mistakes. In the case of the cookies, the baker at the Toll House Inn was trying to make chocolate cookies and ran out of block baker’s chocolate to melt. She tried adding little pieces of sweetened chocolate she had hoping they would melt. In the latter case, Jean-Georges Vongerichten (who may or may not have actually invented it but did popularize it) was trying to bake a traditional Chocolate Torte and undercooked it. The results were, and are, fabulous. My point? Continue reading →