{"id":691,"date":"2011-12-03T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/12\/the-neiman-marcus-cookie-legend-turned-family-tradition-from-2008-post.html"},"modified":"2011-12-03T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T16:47:00","slug":"the-neiman-marcus-cookie-legend-turned-family-tradition-from-2008-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/12\/the-neiman-marcus-cookie-legend-turned-family-tradition-from-2008-post.html","title":{"rendered":"The Neiman Marcus Cookie: Legend Turned Family Tradition — from 2008 Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another post from 2008, and the next cookie recipe headed into in my stand mixer this afternoon.  This isn’t really a Christmas cookie, but it’s among my most popular (after the Holiday Surprises<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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I’m not going to waste time going into the legend of the Neiman Marcus cookie.  I will simply  refer you here<\/a> and you can read all about the legend. 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

Neiman Marcus itself has even embraced the legend and provides a manageable sized recipe also.<\/a><\/p>\n

For the photos here, I’m making a 1\/2 recipe from the version on the Snopes page. 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 very particular 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 for another couple minutes.<\/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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Another post from 2008, and the next cookie recipe headed into in my stand mixer this afternoon.  This 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.  I will simply  refer you here and […]<\/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":[184,75,8,185],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-b9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":271,"url":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/11\/the-neiman-marcus-cookie.html","url_meta":{"origin":691,"position":0},"title":"The Neiman Marcus Cookie","date":"26 November 08","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my last cookie posting for the time being. 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