Chocolate Biscuits (Chip Cookies)

There was a first birthday party to attend and we thought that, in the interests of encouraging the eating of biscuits from as young an age possible, we would make chocolate chip cookies. Thing is we had plenty chocolate but no chips, plenty cocoa powder but no desire to add nuts to the mixture, so these are rather more chocolate biscuits with russian roulette bonus green & blacks chopped up bits of chocolate. It should also be borne in mind that if you bake a chocolate biscuit dough in an oven for ten minutes, there is a reasonable inevitability that the chocolate bits will melt, thus compounding the chocolate biscuitness of the whole enterprise.

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