3.19.10

Friday night I went to Meghan's. She made the infamous Nieman Marcus cookies while Tom, Eva and I thought of things that started with H to take pictures of. These cookies were SO good! A little more complicated and more steps than the standard Nestle Toll House recipe, but very much worth it I think.

Here's the thing though, I texted Meghan today to get the recipe and when I did not get an immediate response, I decided to just Google it. (gosh, I'm impatient) Apparently there is an urban legend where someone got charged $250 for the recipe instead of $2.50 that she thought it cost, so in revenge she sent out the recipe to everyone on the internet. Snopes said this is completely false....and Nieman Marcus has posted the actual recipe on their website as damage control. Either way, this is still an awesome recipe that I highly recommend! As a note, this made a TON of cookies. It might be a good idea to half the recipe. I also don't remember Meghan putting any nuts in her cookies. I just ate one too and didn't taste or see any in them - so I would say that is optional. Here it is:

2 cups butter

4 cups flour

2 tsp. baking soda

2 cups sugar

5 cups blended oatmeal

24 oz. semi sweet chocolate chips

2 cups brown sugar

1 tsp. salt

1 king size 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 baking soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey bar and nuts. Drop onto cookie sheet

Bake at 375 for 8 to 10 minutes, or 10 to 12 minutes for a crisper cookie.

Makes about 10 dozen cookies.