I had the great good fortune to test-bake these during the test-baking sessions for the book, and they were marvelous. I used the spoon-drop method to portion the dough and it worked perfectly well for my less-than-meticulous baking aesthetics. With or without the chocolate they're ridiculously good. I'm going to make these for the cookie swap we're going to and watch the envy of the others as these disappear at lightning speed. If any actually make it to the swap, that is; the "quick-as-lightning" disappearing act happens as soon as they're set up enough to eat. Can't wait to see everyone's posts!