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DoubleTree Chocolate Chip Cookies
The space-baked DoubleTree by Hilton chocolate chip cookies are housed in the collection of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at the National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia, part of the Smithsonian Institution.
The cookie's journey began in 2019 when it was baked on the International Space Station. After the scent spread through the space station, it was returned to Earth for study by food scientists, stopped by Johnson Space Center in Houston, and then became part of the Udvar-Hazy Center's space food exhibit.
“We are thrilled to feature DoubleTree by Hilton’s chocolate chip cookies as the first food baked by astronauts in space,” said museum curator Dr. Jennifer K. Levasseur.
During the first year of the pandemic, Hilton revealed the then-top secret recipe for the chocolate chip cookies that its DoubleTree hotels serve to guests upon arrival.
The recipe posted online calls for butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, freshly squeezed lemon juice, flour, rolled oats, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, walnuts, and semisweet chocolate chips. .
Home bakers can freeze cookie dough and then place it in a freezer oven to make custom DoubleTree chocolate chip cookies, according to Hilton's in-house chef.
The hotel chain began serving chocolate chip cookies to VIP guests in the early 1980s, but soon began offering them to all guests upon check-in. The first DoubleTree hotel opened in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1969.
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