A tiny bit of disappointment here. Chocolate chip cookies: what do you think of? Because I immediately picture those sprawling flat uneven discs with chocolate chunks poking through, slightly golden and crispy-ish at the edges and unbelievably chewy and gorgeous in the middle – eaten warm, without question.
I used to work next door to a small café which baked the best and gooey-est cookies ever – boy, was I fat in those days. Choc chip white, choc chip dark, oats and raisins, I had to have my fix at least once a day.
These are very nice biscuits – Dan Lepard’s recipe from Baking with Passion – but cookies they ain’t. A bit too austere, not quite the whacking amount of sugars as in the classic cookies, a bit too much flour and they don’t spread.
Still – very nice little things. Melting in the mouth and excellent for dunking. Dried cranberries might work well in them, or a few raisins.