I saw this recipe and decided to bake them. I purchased fresh oats to blend and told my buddy in Austin. She sent this article and I said I was going to do the first recipe anyhow.
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Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookies
by Rachel Keller
This yummy chocolate chip cookie has an interesting urban legend with it. Several months ago, I received this delicious recipe in my e-mail along with a note to pass it on to everyone I knew. I don't pass on those types of e-mails, but this recipe is worth passing on!
Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 cups butter
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. Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, and mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey Bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet or drop by teaspoonful onto the cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes, or 10 to 12 minutes for a crispier cookie.
Makes about 10 dozen cookies
REMEMBER, PLEASE, PLEASE, THAT THIS STORY IS AN URBAN LEGEND!
Neiman Marcus Responds
Alongside sewer-dwelling bands of alligators, bugs in bottles of soda, and other urban myths resides the Neiman Marcus $250 cookie fabrication.
NM has never charged anyone anything for a recipe, but the story still persists. Help stamp out untrue gossip by forwarding our free chocolate-chip cookie recipe to any naysayers out there!
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
3 tsp. granulated sugar
1 egg
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 3/4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. instant espresso powder, slightly crushed
8 ounces semisweet chocolate chipsCream the butter with the sugars until fluffy. Beat in the egg and the vanilla extract. Combine the dry ingredients and beat into the butter mixture. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop by large spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes, or 10-12 minutes for a crispier cookie. Makes 15 large cookies.
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Ahmm, now to that sucker punch
First I measured out all of the ingredients. I started creaming the sugars and butter just like it says, I added the 4 eggs and vanilla.
About this time I realized the 6+cups of creamed ingredients were almost filling my large Mix Master bowl. I was sure I couldn't get the next 15 cups of dry ingredients and ccs, and pecans even close to in that bowl.. That was about to be a real mess.
I took about half the creamed mixture out and instead I put Heath bits, white choc. bits and pecans. I made 105 of those.
Then I added remaing ingredients togeather and couldn't get chocalte grated, so it was left out and cc, and pecans were added. I made logs of those to bake today.
They don't resemble the first half which turned out great.
Moral of story is add up those cups. When you cream butter and sugars they expand and 15 cups of added ingredients means cut it in half.
I will now try the real recipe. I'll be using powdered decalf as I have no instant espresso. Maybe I'll find some tonight.
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