This Arrowroot Biscuit  recipe  comes from the All Recipes website .

I like these cookies because they are easy to make, not too sweet, and suitable for young helpers. We make them at least once a month. Sometimes plain, sometimes with chocolate chips, and now with Christmas around the corner, we've been using cookie cutters and festive sprinkles. They make a great snack in lunches, or a nice treat during nap time with a cup of tea.

The link provides you with a single batch, but since I always double the recipe, I've provided my measurements (and my tweaking of the instructions) below.

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup white sugar

2 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup arrowroot flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

(chocolate chips for decorating - optional)

Cream butter or margarine and sugar. Beat in egg and vanilla.
Stir remaining ingredients together (except chocolate chips) and add. Mix well.
Roll 1/8 inch thick on a lightly floured surface.
Cut with cookie cutter or into rounds (ie with the opening of a small juice glass) and transfer to greased baking sheet. Add one or more chocolate chips to shaped dough if desired.
Bake in 350 degree F (175 degrees C) oven for about 8 to 10 minutes (I remove them just before they start to turn golden).
Allow a bit more baking time if rolled thicker.

Here's a shot of the dough being rolled out (you know, in case it wasn't obvious by the rolling pin)!



And here's the final product.

Note, if you let your kids add the chocolate chips, they will ALWAYS add more than one simple, little, decorative chocolate chip. They will try to cover as much surface area as possible with chocolate chips, until you are forced to ration the chocolate chips .. then again, maybe they're on to something. Most things in life are made better with the addition of chocolate.