text: Wakefield is said to have been making chocolate cookies and on running out of regular baker 's chocolate , substituted broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate from NestlÃ thinking that it would melt and mix into the batter .
simplified: According to the saying , Wakefield was making chocolate cookies and because there was no more regular chocolate , she used broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate instead , thinking it would melt and mix into the batter .