Urban Myth

You may have heard the old story where a cookie lover buys a recipe for $250, thinking that is was $2.50. I have one of those recipes, the Neiman Marcus Cookie. I had not made them in years and decided to do it this morning. It makes a huge batch but quite frankly I do not know what I was thinking. It is a lot of work. But Max is raving about them and can't stop eating them so they must be good.
Neiman Marcus Cookies
2 cups butter- yes folks, that is 1#
4 cups flour
2 tsp. soda
2 cups sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal***
24 oz. chocolate chips
2 cups brown sugar
1 tsp. salt
1 8 oz. Hershey bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
***Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder. I use my food processor.
Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together flour, oatmeal, salt, baking pwd. and soda. Add chocolate ships, Hershey bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place on cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.
Makes 12 dozen.
Tami's way- I used a 5 oz Hershey bar and then added a semi sweet bar to finish up. I did not use nuts. My family just doesn't like them in cookies and since I mix my cookies by hand there was no way I could have mixed them into the dough. It was very stiff and my hand was tired. Grating that much chocolate makes a mess and next time I would use my food processor with the grating blade.
I have been in the kitchen for too long and am going to freeze some of the dough. You could half the recipe.
Yes, I am still on the Eat Less, Move More. I do still bake for my guys, there is no sense in punishing them with my need to lose weight. Turkey dinner tonight. They all worked today and I like them to come home to a hot meal. I rented Zelda for the Wii and the movie, '310 to Yuma' for later. Fun times!