If I know I’ll be baking, I pull my salted butter out of the fridge the night before to get to room temp. But if you’re baking spontaneously, no worries, just zap your butter in the microwave on half-power for about 12 seconds.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
I use parchment paper sheets on my cookie sheets and reuse them for all my batches that day.
In your mixer bowl (or large bowl with hand-mixer) cream butter and both sugars sugar until smooth, at least 2 minutes.
Beat in vanilla and egg
In a separate bowl, combine baking powder, salt and flour. Add to wet ingredient mixing bowl a little at a time.
Mix until thoroughly blended.
Fold in mini chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
Divide dough into sections and roll out floured wax paper or other prepared surface to ¼" thick.
Cut into desired shapes. This recipe has very little spread, but if you really want to avoid any spread, chill your cut outs for 30 min before baking. I also always suggest baking similar-sized cookies together.
Bake at 375 degrees for 8-9 minutes (depending on cookie size)
Cool cookies on cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to cooling rack.
Eat plain or decorate!
