These bite-sized chocolate chip cookies come under the same heading as my coconut raspberry jam slice. In other words, they’re exactly the kind of treat you might find being looked at longingly by cats through a window, or enjoyed by Mistress Pussy and Little Dog (their real names) at tea.

Beatrix Potter Images in the Public Domain

And because they’re only teeny, they surely must have fewer calories ()!

I talked a little bit about different world terms for things here. But let’s face it, the word “cookie” is a part of most of our childhoods, whether we actually call them cookies, or biscuits, or anything else.

These teeny chocolate chip cookies are easy and pretty much foolproof to make. Enjoy!!

“In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.”
-according to the internet, salman rushdie. tried to verify this. it can’t be found in a search of quote investigator, google books, wikiquote or goodreads, so will assume it was everyone but salman rushdie. Happy to be proved wrong.

Ingredients

1¾ cups self-raising flour
½ cup caster sugar
½ cup brown sugar, lightly backed
125 g unsalted butter, 4oz
½-1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg, lightly beaten
125 g chocolate chips, 4oz (you can add more, go on)
60 g walnut pieces, 2 oz (optional)
½ tsp salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180℃/350℉. Prepare some baking trays with sheets of baking paper.
Cream butter, sugars and vanilla. (I do this by hand with a wooden spoon but you do.)
Add egg gradually, beating well after adding.
Sift in flour and salt.
Add chocolate chips and walnuts and mix. Decide at this point if you want to add more chocolate chips.
Take heaped teaspoons of the mix and shape into balls. Put them on the baking paper, allowing room for them to spread
Bake 10-12 minutes.