Paradoxically, mini anything evokes memories of both sweet childhoods and sophisticated adulthoods - nursery rhymes and English novels, matchbox cars and Mini-Coopers.

Therefore, tiny ice cream sandwiches guarantee to amuse and delight both the children’s table and the adult table.  Maybe even the teenagers’.

Lark Fine Foods, already legends for their Rosemary Shortbread Cookies (try serving a dollop of olive tapenade on top for a delicious appetizer.) and their collection of “cookies for grown-ups,” just began producing  a mini-size Cha Cha, their spicy chocolate if-mole-were-shortbread cookie.

I had my eye on a box with a cup of tea, but Brett Roeske from Lula’s Pantry in Rockport, where I was day-dreaming about my next cup of Earl Grey, imagined the darlings - black rounds with a slightly rough cut edge that reminds you people make these cookies, not machines -  as miniature ice cream sandwiches.  Add to that a glass of Champagne.  That’s life with Brett, always a little bit better than -.

Given the perfectly scaled red Cha-Cha box, how can one not consider these Minis at the bottom of either a four-year-old’s or forty-year-old’s Christmas stocking?  Even a teenager's?

I recommend a tiny scoop of Batch Vanilla Ice Cream, handmade in Jamaica Plain, MA,  in that tiny ice cream sandwich.  Listen for the tiny ice cream truck.