The $250 Chocolate Chip Cookes

I don't know about you, but I have had a hard time finding a good, reliable chocolate chip cookie recipe.  They end up being too thin & hard, or too cakey, etc, etc.  Until I found these!!!!  These are seriously the best chocolate chips cookies I have ever made!  And the best part is that they have been the the best every time I make them :) 

There is an internet myth out there that was attached to the recipe when I got it from Mike's mom last year.  I don't have it written out anymore but it goes something like this:  A lady & her daughter were eating at a Neiman Marcus restaurant in NYC and they ordered cookies for dessert.  The lady asked the waiter if the chef would sell the recipe to her.  He went & checked with the chef.  When he returned he said "Yes, he will sell it to you for two fifty."  She agreed to that thinking it was $2.50. When she got the bill, she was charged $250!  She was so angry that she posted the recipe on the internet. 

Whether it's true or not-these are G-O-O-D!!!!! I just made them for a Relief Society activity and they were a HUGE hit!  2 Warnings for you: 1-they are addicting!!   2-ALWAYS half the recipe...it makes a lot!!

Enjoy!

Neiman Marcus/Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookiesaka $250 Recipe

2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (this is the secret ingredient!  measure 5 cups then toss in a blender to make a fine powder.  It's 5 cups pre-blended)
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp bakind powder
1 tsp salt
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
24 oz chocolate chips
1 8oz chocolate bar, grated (or pulse lightly in a blender-this is important too because it kind of melts into the batter & makes them YUMMY!!)
3 cups chopped nuts (optional-I've never made them with nuts)

*Cream butter and both sugars.  Add eggs & vanilla.  In a separate bowl, mix together flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.  Then add that into the creamed mixture a couple cups at a time.  Add chocolate chips, chocolate bar & nuts.  Roll into balls & place 2" apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375.

They are divine warm & gooey but they stay soft for days!! We've even frozen some and they were even soft after they thawed out :) 

Just for an example of how many cookies this recipe makes....for the R.S. activity I made a full batch and I baked 7 or 8 dozen cookies and still had 1/3 of the cookie dough left!!  YIKES!  That's dangerous at this house!!

Hope you like them!! :)

Love ya!
Ang