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    NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be hal


    Source of Recipe


    Krishalyn Dawn

    Recipe Introduction


    My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas , and we decided to have a small dessert. Because both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the"Neiman-Marcus cookie." It was so excellent that I asked if they would give me the recipe, and the waitress said with a small frown, "I'm afraid not, but you can buy the recipe."
    Well, I asked how much, and she responded, "Only two fifty-it's a great deal!" I agreed to that, and told her to just add it to my tab. Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the Neiman-Marcus charge was $285.00! I looked again, and I remembered I had
    only spent $9.95 for two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf. As I glanced at the bottom of the statement, it said, "Cookie Recipe-$250.00". That was outrageous!
    I called Neiman's Accounting Department and told them the waitress said it was "two fifty", which clearly does not mean "two hundred and fifty dollars" by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase. Neiman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money because, according to them, "What the waitress told you is not our problem. You have already seen the recipe. We absolutely will not refund your money at this point." I explained to the Accounting Department lady the criminal statutes which govern fraud in the state of Texas . I threatened to report them to the Better Business Bureau and the Texas Attorney General's office for engaging in fraud. I was basically told, "Do what you want. Don't bother thinking of how you can get even, and don 't bother trying to get any of your money back." I just said, Okay, you folks got my $250, and now I'm going to have $250 worth of fun." I told her that I was going to see to it that every cookie lover in the World with an e-mail account and reads craigslist has a $250 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus...for free. She replied, "I wish you wouldn't do this."

    I said, "Well, perhaps you should have thought of that before you ripped me off!" and slammed down the phone. So here it is!

    Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of. I paid $250 for this, and I don 't want Neiman-Marcus to EVER make another penny off of this recipe!

    List of Ingredients




    2 cups butter
    24 oz. chocolate chips
    4 cups flour
    2 cups brown sugar
    2 tsp. soda
    1 tsp. salt
    2 cups sugar
    1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
    5 cups blended oatmeal
    4 eggs
    2 tsp. baking powder
    2 tsp. vanilla
    3 cups
    chopped nuts (optional)

    Recipe



    Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine
    powder. Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs
    and vanilla, mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt,
    baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips,
    Hershey Bar, and nuts. Roll into balls, and place
    two inches apart on a cookie sheet.
    Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies.

 

 

 


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