Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
The famous Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe. Blended oatmeal in the cookie dough is the secret ingredient that gives these cookies just a little more texture and body.
Most of you have probably heard the urban legend of the $250 Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe. I have to admit to being a Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie girl, but when my step-mom kindly brought me a stack of her favorite recipes on her recent visit, I knew I had to finally give the Nieman Marcus cookie a try.
I really liked this cookie. The blended oatmeal gives it a little more texture than a Toll House cookie, more like an oatmeal cookie and I’m always happy with a little extra fiber where ever I can get it. I prefer my cookies slightly under-baked and had to watch these closely to achieve the perfect color/texture. They seemed to brown very quickly at the end.
I needed to bake 2 dozen oversized 4″ cookies, so I used a #16 scoop and only made 6 cookies at a time. Initially, I thought I should flatten the dough significantly so it would cook more evenly, but the first ones really spread too much, so I just flattened the top on the rest and that worked out really well.
Update: I made these cookies again recently to take on a camping trip and to take new pictures. I used a #40 scoop for a traditional 2-inch chocolate chip cookie in the pictures.
Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 2 1/2 cups oatmeal, blended
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 12 oz. chocolate chips (2 cups)
- 1 (4 oz.) Hershey bar, grated
- 1 1/2 cups chopped nuts (I omitted these)
Instructions
- Blended oatmeal: Measure and process in blender to a powder. Cream butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla.
- Mix together flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda and slowly add to butter, sugar, egg mixture. Add chips, candy and nuts.
- Roll into balls and place two inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. (Take the cookies out of the oven 1 or 2 minutes before the cookies are cooked, as they will continue to cook on the baking pans.).
- Let cookies cool for 2 minutes on baking sheet before transferring cookies to racks to cool completely.
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I work at a lovely appliance store. We have several live kitchens displaying each brand in a kitchen set up. I am very blessed to be able to cook and bake and demonstrate the appliances – not to mention get the juices flowing for prospective buyers in the showroom!. I just made these cookies for our showroom guests with amazing success! I did embellish a bit by adding a little cinnamon, used less white sugar and more brown sugar equaling 2 cups, added toasted coconut and heath toffee bits. Just a wee amount of those. I baked them for 10 mins at 350 C0NVECTION. They turned out beautiful & WONDERFULLY DELICIOUS!!! Some of our guests were brave enough to ask for the recipe – which I shared, even with my embellishments. Definitely a keeper recipe.
Sounds like delicious changes. Thanks for sharing Deanie!
I’m going to make these cookies for the first time today,but I need to know if I should use milk chocolate chips or semisweet chips.
Thanks,
Amber
Hi Amber – you could use milk chocolate but semi-sweet are traditionally used in cookies.
These are really good cookies, I make them only once a year cause it requires too much work. I have to blend the oatmeal to a find flour and chop everything up. Its worth it but only once a year and I usually double the recipe. So for people that don’t like oatmeal, they won’t know you put any in them. lol
Thanks Melissa – definitely worth the extra work.
I have made these and they are delicious. However u am wanting to make double chocolate chip….do you think I can just add cocoa powder?? And if so how much do u think would be enough?
Hi Yvette – If you want a chocolate cookie dough, I would add 1 cup of cocoa powder and only use 1 1/2 cups of the blended oatmeal or you could try only using 1 cup of flour. Based on this recipe https://www.barbarabakes.com/triple-chocolate-smores-cookies/ which my family loves.
Thanks for linking to my cookies! These look amazing!
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hi barbara,
did u grind all the oats to a fine powder? i like the texture of your cookies.
I just baked these cookies using l cup whole grain flour and 1 cup all purpose and used chopped pecans. They are fantastic! Thank you.
This recipe is the ONLY one that my son uses for CCC. I like them very much too.
I made these so many years ago I can't even count! LOL They were delicious though, I completely agree 🙂
The story behind these cookies makes me want to try them more. Thanks!
Hey Barbara! Where do I send my $250 check?! Those look amazing! Thank you so much! I hope you have a great weekend!
Wow Barbara they look just like the ones they serve a Neiman Marcus good job.
Oh yum – those sound so good! I love choc chip cookies, and I bet the oatmeal gives them that extra something-something. Delicious!
I lost this recipe! Thanks for posting it! These cookies are delicious.
This used to be my favorite ccc, while I still love it, I've made many since and kind of like making all kinds. Right now the NY Times is my fave. The NM $250 is a great cookie! Yours look awesome.
Sounds like cookies that worth trying.
How funny- I was just browsing this recipe the other day in my chocolate chip cookie file… ended up choosing another one. I've always wanted to try this one too though! Will have to give it a go next time 🙂
Ive heard of these and always wanted to try them!
I've definitely heard of these, but never made them. They look really delicious!