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Neiman Marcus Cookies

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There is a legend behind these Neiman Marcus Cookies! It is rumored that the recipe for these triple chocolate chip oatmeal cookies with blended walnuts was sold for $250! After one bite, you will believe these Neiman Marcus Cookies are worth the price!

Neiman Marcus Cookie Being broken apart

I wanted to kick of the Christmas baking with a bang with my all time favorite cookie, the Neiman Marcus Cookie!

There is nothing better than a freshly baked cookie that is oozing chocolate right from the oven.

And this chocolate chip cookie, well let’s just say it has a bit of a story behind it that makes it worth quite a bit of loot.

I am sure several of you have heard the infamous story of how a women at a famous department store begged for a recipe of a baked good she had eaten at their cafe, only to receive a bill in the vicinity of $250. She expressed her anger for this rather large bill by sharing the recipe with anybody and everybody.

Is the legend true? I doubt it, but I will say this recipe for Neiman Marcus cookies is DELICIOUS and a must have chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Neiman Marcus Cookies

Move aside chocolate chip cookies–there is a new player in town and this Triple Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie came to give every soul the dose of chocolate they crave and desire.

This Neiman Marcus cookie recipe is a little bit of this and a whole lot of that, for one irresistible cookie that is soft, chewy, and filled with chocolate.

Neiman Marcus Cookie Ingredients

The ingredients that make this legendary chocolate chip cookie stand out are:

  • Blended oats–for a hearty taste and slightly chewy texture
  • Blended nuts–for a nutty taste without huge chunks of nuts
  • Chocolate–3 kinds for an ultimate chocolate chip cookie recipe
    • Grated chocolate bar
    • Semi-sweet chocolate chips
    • Milk chocolate chips
  • Butter–what is a cookie without pure, rich butter?!

How to Make Neiman Marcus Cookies

Mix together blended oats, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, blended nuts, and chocolate together in large mixing bowl.

Flour Mixture for Neiman Marcus Cookies

In separate large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars together.

Add in eggs and vanilla extract and beat until creamy.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Batter

Slowly mix in dry ingredients into creamed sugars.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookie Dough

Refrigerate dough for at least 30 minutes.

Roll cookies into even balls.

How to Make Perfect Cookies

Bake until just set.

Cool on cookie sheet for 2 minutes.

Baked Neiman Marcus Cookies

Remove to cooling rack.

How to Soften Cold Butter

Almost all cookies start with room temperature butter.  But what do you do if your butter is ice cold and you want that cookie NOW?

Use your microwave? NO NO NO!!!

  • Unwrap your butter, place in large bowl.
  • Nestle the large bowl over a smaller bowl that is filled with hot tap water.
  • Let the butter sit out while you gather ingredients and magically room temperature butter.

I am like a Christmas elf, spreading cheer and tips for cookies 🙂 

Blending Oats to make Homemade Oat Flour

This recipe calls for 2 1/2 cups of blended oatmeal–which is basically oat flour.

To make oat flour:

  • Place oats into blender and whirl away until a powdery substance forms.
  • The important part of this is to measure the oats AFTER you blend them, not before–baking is a science.

Blending Nuts

This recipe also calls for 1 1/2 cup blended nuts.

  • Place nuts in blender and pulse until small chunks of nuts remain.
  • If you like the crunch of chopped nuts, instead of blended nuts, in your cookie, use

Grating Chocolate Bars

I know, I know…so many ingredients. But that is why these cookies are so darn GOOD!!

To grate chocolate, use 4 oz of your favorite chocolate bar.

  • Be sure your chocolate is cold.
  • You can use a hand grater, box grater, or food processor and grate chocolate bar into small shreds.
  • Pro Tip: Use food processor to blend oats, blend nuts and grate chocolate bars to cut down on dishes.

Tips to Store Chocolate Chip Cookies

My family adores these cookies and we are asked to bring them to just about every event we attend the Holiday Season. But they are best freshly baked–aren’t ALL cookies?!

In order to have these cookies freshly baked all through the season with ease, I freeze the cookie dough.

How to Freeze Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookie Dough

  • Make a large batch of cookie dough.
  • Roll them  into 1 1/2 tablespoon size balls
  • Place them on wax paper/parchment paper lined rimmed trays and freeze for 1 hour.
  • Transfer the balls to a freezer safe storage bag.
  • When wanting to eat, bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes directly from freezer.

Expert Tips for making the best Chocolate Chip Cookies

  • Make sure your ingredients are at room temperature to ensure even mixing of cookie dough.
    • Butter should be soft to the touch.
    • Eggs should not feel cold to to touch.
  • Be sure to refrigerate batter after blending together.
    • This allows the butter in the  chocolate chip cookie batter to get cold which will let your cookie rise and be fluffy, instead of having a flat cookie.
    • Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, up to 48 hours.
  • Be sure all cookies are uniform in size.
    • Use 1 1/2 tablespoons for each cookie. Roll into even ball.
    • Alternatively you can use an 18/8, or #40 cookie scoop.
  • Preheat oven fully.
    • Allow your oven to be preheated to correct temperature to let cookie bake properly.
  • Do not over bake cookies.
    • Bake until center is JUST set, and lightly browned.
    • Cookies will continue to bake on cookie sheet for 1-2 minutes after they are removed from oven.
  • Cool on cookie baking rack.
    • After 2 minutes, remove cookies from baking sheet and let cool on cooling rack.
  • Bake on nonstick cookie sheets or use parchment paper to ensure cookies will not stick to pan.

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Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe

Triple Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
5 from 2 votes
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Neiman Marcus Cookies

A triple chocolate chip cookies with blended oatmeal and blended nuts for an out of this world chocolate chip cookie. 

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Neiman Marcus Cookie
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 6 minutes
Total Time 36 minutes
Servings 72 cookies
Calories 122 kcal

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups blended oats see tip
  • 2 cups unbleached flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 6 oz dark chocolate chips
  • 6 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 4 oz milk chocolate candy bar grated
  • 1 1/2 cups nuts blended (I use walnuts and pecans)
  • 1 cup butter at room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Instructions

  1. Mix together the dry ingredients in large bowl. Toss the nuts and chocolates with the dry ingredients to lightly coat with flour (this keeps the goodies evenly distributed in the batter. )
  2. In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, cream butter and sugars together until fluffy and light in color--about 7-8 minutes. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat until well combined.
  3. Stir the dry ingredients in the wet ingredients until just combined.
  4. Refrigerate dough for at least 30 minutes.
  5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

  6. Using 1 1/2 tablespoons for each cookie, roll into a ball.

  7. Bake for 6-7 minutes, until edges are lightly browning and centers are still a bit jiggly. Cool on cookie sheet for a minute or two before transferring to a cooling rack.
  8. Enjoy!

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Nutrition Facts
Neiman Marcus Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 122 Calories from Fat 54
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 6g 9%
Saturated Fat 3g 15%
Cholesterol 11mg 4%
Sodium 60mg 3%
Potassium 76mg 2%
Total Carbohydrates 14g 5%
Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
Sugars 8g
Protein 1g 2%
Vitamin A 1.7%
Calcium 1.9%
Iron 3%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Comments

  1. you are so smart with the freezing (!!!) we are a family of three and I just seem to always make wayyy tooooo many.

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    • I hear ya! I love to have cookies on hand, but don’t want to bake them all and then have to resist the temptation to eat them all 🙂

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  4. Thanks for the softening butter trick. I usually sit for a while attempting to mash the butter to “soften” it. This water trick makes so much sense though!

    Also, these cookies look amazing. I love the mix of dark and milk chocolate. I cannot wait to try!

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    • You are welcome. Another trick is to grate cold butter with a cheese grater–but why dirty a grater and do the extra work?

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  5. Love that water trick! These cookies look and sound amazing!! Definitely worth $250 😉

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  7. Thanks for the additional tips! I Can’t wait to freeze the cookie dough! I haven’t done that before. (any extra gets eaten…)

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    • Thanks Thalia. I just got my new Food Network Magazine in the mail and it is featuring cookies–totally going to bake a few of these from my freezer and put my feet up with my magazine later 🙂

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  9. Three kinds of chocolate!!! YUM! You are the best Christmas elf spreading cheer and tips for cookies!

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  10. I have never had a kitchen sink cookie, but I can tell I would love them! I mean, what’s not to love? 🙂 These look absolutely delicious!

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  11. The more things in cookies, the better! These look so good, I would definitely eat more than one! 🙂 Hope thsat you are having a great week! All month long I am featuring different holiday cookie creations for my cookie countdown to Christmas! I would love it if you stopped by to check it out! 🙂
    Cathy

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  12. These cookies look delicious! Thanks so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday this week. Hope you have a great weekend and come back soon!
    Miz Helen

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  13. They sound so good! I love homemade cookies. Thanks for linking up to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Party! I’ve pinned your post to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Board.

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  14. These cookies sound wonderful! I love having frozen cookie dough on hand too. It is saved me so many times when unexpected guests have popped by.

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  15. This looks so perfect! I wish I could take a bite right now! Pinned and tweeted. Thank you for being a part of our party. I hope to see you on tonight at 7 pm. It wouldn’t be a party without you!
    Happy Monday! Lou Lou Girls

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    • Thanks Kimberly. I was had a day today so I am actually sitting here catching up on DVR, emails and eating some. Pure therapy!!

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  16. All I can say is – thank goodness this recipe makes 6 dozen cookies. All my cookie exchanges seem to be calling for 4 dozen cookies this year, so this way I’ll have plenty of these cookies FOR MYSELF. And thanks for the super-helpful tips! I never would have figured out how to do the blended oatmeal thing on my own.

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  17. I’m officially drooling over these beautiful cookies, and I love the story behind them. I also love how you break down exactly what you’re supposed to do in this post because I think blended oatmeal and nuts would throw me off… And that’s a great tip to get butter to room temperature without using the microwave!

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  18. I have never heard of the $250 cookie, or any baked good. But, these look delish! Thank you for linking up with the Online Christmas Cookie Exchange. I have pinned this to the group board.

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  19. Dear Kristen, I love your tips for making these cookies…they sound fantastic. I love loaded chocolate chip cookies! Send some extra my way please! xo, Catherine

    Reply

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