Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe #13 – Urban Legend
Recipe: “Urban Legend” Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie
Source: I’m sure many of you have heard about the Urban Legend of the famed Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie. If you haven’t, please click one of the links below, because while it may or may not be true, it is a fascinating story. From what I could find, this story has been circulating the internet since 1996 and the funny thing is, that there are two different recipes. This post is dedicated to the “Urban Legend” recipe. The recipe makes appx. 112 cookies, so many of the recipes that you will see on the following links have already been halved. www.urbanlegends.about.com www.tastebook.com, www.recipezaar.com, www.family.go.com, www.whippedtheblog.com, www.snopes.com
Ingredients:
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder)
24oz. chocolate chips
1 tsp. salt
1 8oz. Hershey bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2 tsp. vanilla
*recipe may be halved*
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375º. In an electric mixer, cream the butter and both sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs, and vanilla; mix well.
2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Slowly add to sugar mixture. Add chocolate chips, Hershey bar, and nuts.
3. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375º.
Yield: 112 cookies
Total Taste-Testers: 22
Average Scores: on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the highest score
Taste: 4.2
Texture: 3.9
Amount of chocolate chips: 4.5
Quality of chocolate: 4.5
Overall: 4.3
My review: This is a delicious cookie; however, in my opinion, it is not a classic chocolate chip cookie, which makes it difficult to compare to the other recipes. While the only non traditional classic chocolate chip cookie ingredient in this recipe is oatmeal, there is so much of it that it completely changes the quality and texture of the cookie. The blended oatmeal gives the cookie a very nice flavor, and yields a very thick soft center, but it also makes the cookie very grainy. The cookie is bursting with chocolate and overall is a very satisfying cookie! Different, but tasty!
Taste-Tester comments:
* “The chocolate quality and quantity in this cookie are perfect in my opinion. However, the texture was quite grainy which kept me from enjoying the taste as much as I could have.”
* “Yummy. Slightly grainy texture, but I liked it a lot.”
* “This is a wonderful cookie! The oatmeal is really nice with the shaved chocolate.”
* “Too sugary. The oatmeal in it turned me off. Soft but not moist.”
* “This cookie tastes so good! I love it.”
* “Very weird taste.”
* “Amazing!”
* “Yum!”
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