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Directions:Preheat oven to 375º.
First, pour the 2 1/2 cups of oatmeal into a blender or food processor and grind for about a minute until it becomes the consistency of flour. If you want to leave some of it whole and unground, feel free to do that instead.
In medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, oatmeal, salt, baking power and baking soda.
In large mixing bowl, blend the sugars with the softened butter. Add the eggs and vanilla, beating until it is all well combined.
Add the flour mixture to the wet mixture and blend it all together well.
Lastly, mix in the chips, grated chocolate, and nuts.
This mixture is very thick so if you are using a power mixer, you may want to finish up the blending by hand.
I like to place the bowl of dough in the fridge for about a half hour to allow it to set.
When ready to bake, grease a cookie sheet or cover a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Scoop out smallish balls of dough, about walnut-sized, if you want smaller cookies, or use an ice cream scoop if you want big cookies. Space the dough balls at least an inch apart. Bake about 6 - 7 minutes for a small, soft cookie. For a larger cookie it will take about 12 - 14 min or until lightly browned. I make these small and have found that 5 minutes leaves them too soft and undercooked but over 7 minutes they get hard. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. They will firm up some upon cooling. |
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Notes: * Most types of cookies can be frozen just after they cool, and then brought out later on, as fresh as if they were just out of the oven. And they can stay frozen for several months. This recipe makes a lot of cookies so I usually freeze half of them for later.
** This recipe "The Two Fifty Cookie Recipe" has been around for decades and the story goes this way: A lady and her daughter had lunch at Neiman Marcus, loved their cookies, asked for the recipe and was told it would cost "two-fifty" to have the recipe. The lady agreed and when her credit card bill came, she saw she had been charged $250. She thought that was a crazy amount to pay for a cookie recipe so she sent the recipe out for the whole world to see. There are other similar renditions of this story, and a few adjustments made to the recipe over the years. And the original recipe makes twice as many cookies. This recipe has been halved, making it more manageable for the average kitchen. So if you like the recipe, pass it on!
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