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Where to Get the Very Best
Chocolate Chip Cookies in the World

By Madelyn Miller

Some people might walk a mile for a Camel, but I would go around the world for a great chocolate chip.

Fortunately,  I usually don’t have to travel to far to get one, because over the years I have learned that DOUBLETREE HOTELS serve their guests the best chocolate chip cookies in the world.

I am a self-proclaimed expert on chocolate chip cookies. When I was restaurant reviewer for the MET MAGAZINE in Dallas years ago, I created a research project for myself---find the best chocolate chip cookie in Dallas. It was one of my favorite career opportunities. And when I realized my favorite cookies were available at DOUBLETREE HOTELS all over the world, I was in heaven. (actually, I was motivated to travel more)

Recently, I moved and am a bit farther away from my local Doubletree. I have to drive a bit out of the way to get them. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I just learned you can get them by mail order. So if you don’t have time to visit a Doubletree Hotel, you can enjoy the cookies in the privacy of your own home.

If you are reading this and know of a better chocolate chip cookie, please email me and let me know your favorite. As a diligent researcher, I will do my best to get anywhere in the world to taste the cookies.

THE DOUBLETREE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE:

MORE THAN 115 MILLION SERVED TO GRATEFUL TRAVELERS

Doubletree Hotels, Suites, Resorts and Clubs have built a reputation on a unique treat that keeps leisure and business travelers coming back for more: its legendary chocolate chip cookie presented to each guest at check-in.  Synonymous with Doubletree hospitality, the cookie has played a starring role in differentiating the Doubletree hotel brand from its competition.

Following are a few “tid-bites” about the Doubletree chocolate chip cookie:

• Across North America, Doubletree gives out approximately 29,000 chocolate chip cookies each day.  That’s more than 10,500,000 each year!

• Doubletree began giving out chocolate chip cookies in the early 1980s, when many properties across the country used them as treats for VIPs.

• In 1995, Doubletree enlisted the services of Nashville-based Christie Cookie Company to hold the brand’s secret recipe, which ensures that the same, delicious cookie is delivered consistently at every Doubletree property.

• Every Doubletree chocolate chip cookie is baked fresh daily at each property.

• Each cookie weighs a hearty 2 ½ ounces and has an average of 20 chocolate chips.

• The Christie Cookie Company uses more than 580,000 pounds of chocolate chips each year for Doubletree’s cookies.

• In June 2002, Doubletree gave its 100,000,000th cookie!

• To date, more than 115,000,000 cookies have been served to delighted guests and customers

In the past two years, children participating in Doubletree’s Teaching Kids to CARE program have donated more than 500,000 chocolate chip cookies to people ranging from doctors and nurses, police and firefighters, to non-profit groups such as orphanages, food banks and homeless shelters.

A sweet treat tin of Doubletree cookies can be shipped anywhere in the U.S. and Canada by placing an order at www.doubletreecookies.com.

OTHER PEEK EXPERIENCES FOR CHOCOHOLICS

Chocolatier Magazine
Great way to get your monthly chocolate fix

BAKE AND FREEZE CHOCOLATE DESSERTS
By Elinor Klivans
120 recipes to make now and enjoy later
www.bdd.com

ALL ABOUT CHOCOLATE
The ultimate resource for the World’s Favorite Food
By Carole Bloom
McMillan USA
www.mgr.com

CHOCOLATE CRAZY
By Slvia Balser Hirsch
The celebrated Miss Grimble presents more inspired Desserts—all chocolate
MacMillan Publishing Company

Mr. Food Simply Chocolate
Think chocolate goodies are hard to make? Not when you make them Mr. Food’s way
William Morrow and Company, Inc.

The Chocolate Lover’s Guide
To the Pacific Northwest
By Bobbie Hasselbring
Wordsworth Publishing

CHOCOLATE from the CAKE MIX DOCTOR
By Anne Byrn
Workman PUBLISHING
WWW.workman.com

365 Great Chocolate Desserts
by Natalie Haughton
Harper Collins Publisher

THE TOTALLY CHOCOLATE COOKBOOK
By Helen Siegel and Karen Gillingham
Celestial Arts

CHOCOLATE
THE CONSUMING PASSION
By Sandra Boynton
Workman Publishing
www.workman.com

THE LITTLE BOOK OF CHOCOLATE
By Katherine Khodorowsky and Herve Robert
Published by Flammarion
Distributed by Rizzoli through St. Martin’s Press

CINNAMON MORNINGS AND CHOCOLATE DREAMS
By Pamela Lanier
Lanier Publishing
www.travelguides.com

GOOD DEEDS WITH CHOCOLATE
Chef Hilly Blondheim has put his culinary skills to good use and turned a simple boyhood treat into a life-saving instrument in the fight against breast cancer. Whether its sprinkled on top of fruit or ice cream, to enhance the flavor of coffee or a smoothie, blended into waffle or pancake batter, used in a chocolate martini, sampled as fondue, or simply to make the best cup of hot chocolate you have ever tasted, the possibilities for this gourmet chocolate mix are endless.
www.chefhillyskitchen.com

CHOCOLATE TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES

GREAT CHCOLATE MOUSSE FESTIVAL
New Brunswick, Canada

Sutton Place Hotel weekend chocolate buffet
Toronto, Canada

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Norwegian Caribbean Lines
afternoon chocolate buffet

Chocolate tea buffet
Mark Hotel, New York

Chocolate Festival
Poconos Manor Inn and Golf Resort
Pennsylvania

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