{"id":271,"date":"2008-11-26T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/11\/the-neiman-marcus-cookie.html"},"modified":"2008-11-26T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T03:58:00","slug":"the-neiman-marcus-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/11\/the-neiman-marcus-cookie.html","title":{"rendered":"The Neiman Marcus Cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is my last cookie posting for the time being. I’m going to the Florida Panhandle on Monday for some AF Training and will be back the weekend before Christmas. Yes<\/em>, I could think of better times to be away from the family, and I will do what I can from Florida in terms of Christmas cards and shopping (yay, LL Bean, Land’s End, Omaha Steaks, Swiss Colony and Amazon!). I’ll start on the holiday newsletter once I get to Florida. Last year I started simply posting the newsletter online, and that will make things very easy to do from 1200 miles from home.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to waste time going into the legend of the Neiman Marcus cookie. I mentioned it briefly on my initial cookie blog post last month<\/a>, and simply need to refer you here<\/a> and you can read all about it. Whether it’s true or not, every time I’ve made these cookies, they’ve been a huge hit and I’m always asked for the recipe. No problem! No big family secrets here!<\/p>\n

For the photos here (taken around 11\/15), I’m making a 1\/2 recipe. I did a full recipe on 11\/22, and it filled the bowl to the brim when I added the chocolate chips and nuts to the mixer.<\/p>\n

First you cream the butter and white\/brown sugar. I’m a Nazi about this — I set the mixer on medium and let ‘er rip for about 3-5 minutes until it’s fluffy.<\/p>\n

Then I add the remaining wet ingredients: eggs & vanilla. Beat it to a pulp.<\/p>\n

Then start adding the dry ingredients. Alton Brown<\/a> and folks like that will tell you to sift all the dry ingredients together: all-purpose flour, blended oatmeal, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Then add it slowly as the mixer is running on low. I don’t do that…call me lazy. AB, I love you to death, but I just want my cookies! I add the dry goods directly to the mixer one ingredient at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Once the dough is all together, slowly add the grated Hershey’s bar (I ground up leftover Hershey’s Kisses from my Holiday Surprise cookies – refrigerate the chocolate for about an hour and then run it through the food processor), chocolate chips and nuts. You’ll want the mixer on the slowest setting possible, or you can even hand-mix it. The dough will be VERY thick, and my mixer actually struggles quite a bit on the full recipe once all the ingredients are added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Now you simply roll the dough into 1 – 1 1\/2″ balls and pop them onto your handy-dandy cookie sheet or baking stone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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A closeup of a finished cookie for your enjoyment: <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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I’ll tell you what, you do this recipe right, and you’ll have mostly chocolate and nuts in each cookie, hopefully you see it in this shot: <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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From 2008 11 25 NeimanMarcusCookies<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my last cookie posting for the time being. I’m going to the Florida Panhandle on Monday for some AF Training and will be back the weekend before Christmas. Yes, I could think of better times to be away from the family, and I will do what I can from Florida in terms of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[75,8,54],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-4n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":691,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/12\/the-neiman-marcus-cookie-legend-turned-family-tradition-from-2008-post.html","url_meta":{"origin":271,"position":0},"title":"The Neiman Marcus Cookie: Legend Turned Family Tradition — from 2008 Post","date":"03 December 11","format":false,"excerpt":"Another post from 2008, and the next cookie recipe headed into in my stand mixer this afternoon. \u00a0This isn't really a Christmas cookie, but it's among my most popular (after the Holiday Surprises).****************************I'm not going to waste time going into the legend of the Neiman Marcus cookie. \u00a0I will\u00a0simply \u00a0refer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"baking\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":264,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/11\/let-the-cookie-extravaganza-begin.html","url_meta":{"origin":271,"position":1},"title":"Let the Cookie Extravaganza Begin!","date":"03 November 08","format":false,"excerpt":"It's that time of year.\"Election Season?\"Well, yeah, but that's not what I'm talking about...\"Autumn? 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