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One of my favorite things about parties is the abundance of finger food. I don't know what it is, but I love just being able to eat stuff with my hands in quick little bites and not have to deal with a plate or a fork. Cookies are great for such occasions, but you know what are even better? Mini cookies. You an just plop one right on in your mouth without having to take a bite and risk crumbs falling down your shirt (I hope I'm not the only one).
And there's nothing more classic than a chocolate chip cookie gone miniature. They're cute and delicious and you won't realize how many you've actually eaten because they're so small. And I suppose if you have some little ones running around, they're even better. Because we all know the little ones are crumb monsters.
The only problem with these is that they aren't quite as easy to make as regular chocolate chip cookies - mostly because of the small size. I don't know about you, but I don't have a little mini scooper thing, so having to use a teaspoon and then roll them out by hand was just a tad on the time consuming side. Now, if I did have a scooper in the right size, these would be even easier than they are now. I also am not sure I agree with this particular recipe's call for melted butter, so you may very well want to try softened butter instead of melted, or even stick the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes before you start scooping it out onto your pan. Just some tips to try! They do come out tasting good without doing those things as well, it's all just a matter of preference!
Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mini chocolate chip cookies - for when you want something sweet and bite-sized!
Cook time: 5-6 minutes
Ingredients
(Recipe via Cooking Classy)
In photos:
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Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies
One of my favorite things about parties is the abundance of finger food. I don't know what it is, but I love just being able to eat stuff with my hands in quick little bites and not have to deal with a plate or a fork. Cookies are great for such occasions, but you know what are even better? Mini cookies. You an just plop one right on in your mouth without having to take a bite and risk crumbs falling down your shirt (I hope I'm not the only one).
And there's nothing more classic than a chocolate chip cookie gone miniature. They're cute and delicious and you won't realize how many you've actually eaten because they're so small. And I suppose if you have some little ones running around, they're even better. Because we all know the little ones are crumb monsters.
The only problem with these is that they aren't quite as easy to make as regular chocolate chip cookies - mostly because of the small size. I don't know about you, but I don't have a little mini scooper thing, so having to use a teaspoon and then roll them out by hand was just a tad on the time consuming side. Now, if I did have a scooper in the right size, these would be even easier than they are now. I also am not sure I agree with this particular recipe's call for melted butter, so you may very well want to try softened butter instead of melted, or even stick the dough in the fridge for 30 minutes before you start scooping it out onto your pan. Just some tips to try! They do come out tasting good without doing those things as well, it's all just a matter of preference!
Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies
Mini chocolate chip cookies - for when you want something sweet and bite-sized!
Cook time: 5-6 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1/2 + 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt. Set aside for now.
- In your mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat together the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Mix on medium until combined. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract until well-combined. With the mixer on low, slowly add in your flour mixture and mix until just combined. Don't overmix here. Then stir in your chocolate chips.
- Scoop dough out in heaping 1/2 teaspoons. Shape into balls and place on a parchment or silpat-lined baking sheet, spacing each cookie 1 inch apart. You can also press in a few more chips on top of the cookies to make them prettier. Bake in your oven for 5-6 minutes. They'll be a little soft still; let them sit on the pan for a few more minutes to continue cooking, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
In photos:
Whisk together your dry ingredients.
Beat together your wet ingredients, then slowly mix in your dry and you get this.
Add in your chips, then scoop little balls onto your prepared baking sheet.
Bake for 5-6 minutes. I would recommend sticking these in the fridge for 30 minutes before going in the oven, but that's just me.
After they're cooled, they are ready to plate up and serve!
- Butterscotch Cookies
I know not everyone is a big butterscotch fan, though I can't say I really know why! Because I do love me some butterscotch. My question, however, is this - what even is butterscotch? I mean, it's basically just sugar, right? Like, sort of caramelized...
- Egg-less Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
What happens when you want to make some kind of baked good, but realize you don't have any eggs? You go looking through the vastness of the internet to find a recipe sans egg, of course. Because who wants to run to the grocery store when you were...
- Vanilla Pudding Mix Chocolate Chip Cookies
I know, I know. I've been posting a LOT of cookie recipes on here lately! Sometimes I just get in a cookie phase and cannot be stopped, what can I say. These particular cookies are a take on a traditional chocolate chip, which I have made many varieties...
- Brown Sugar Cookies
I love a good chocolate chip cookie, but I confess my favorite part of a chocolate chip cookie is not the chocolate chips. It's the actual cookie itself. And the dough? Forget about those chocolate chips altogether, just let me eat the dough plain....
- Super Soft And Dense Chocolate Chip Cookies
When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do was go over to my grandma's house, because I knew we'd make chocolate chip cookies. We didn't always make them homemade, oftentimes it was out of a tub because we were short on time, but you...