This week’s Tastes Like Vintage recipe post is by Marilyn from SophisticatedFlorida.
Our Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies
Years ago, back when information was mass distributed by chain letter, my mother sent me a recipe for the Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip cookie. The story went like this:
A woman was lunching at Nieman Marcus and had a chocolate chip cookie for dessert. She liked it so much she asked if she could buy the recipe. Certainly, the waitress told her, it’s two fifty. Turns out when the credit card bill arrived that it was $250. So to get even, she distributed the recipe via chain letter.
Urban myth. However, it was so popular that, to quell bad publicity, Nieman Marcus eventually published the recipe on their website. Here’s the official recipe, our go to favorite cookies of all time!
The Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie
Ingredients:
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ¾ cups flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons instant coffee, slightly crushed
- 8 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
- Cream butter with sugars until fluffy.
- Beat in the egg and the vanilla extract.
- Combine the dry ingredients and beat into the butter mixture.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Drop by large spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet*.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or 10 to 12 minutes for a crispier cookie.
Makes 15 large cookies.
*Large means really large cookies. I usually get 25 to 30 regular size cookies out of this recipe.
Vintage Supplies for Making Chocolate Chip Cookies:
Mix the batter in this bowl from SelectiveSalvage
Stir and scoop with GizmoandHooHa
Measure up with TheLittleThingsVin
Serve on this beautiful cake stand from SplendidJunkVintage
Enjoy on dessert plates from EightMileVintage
I am salivating, both for the cookies and the tasty vintage offerings!
Looks Yummy! Pinned, so I can find it when I need it. Thanks for Sharing.
I too have heard that urban legend about the Neiman Marcus cookies. Regardless of how we get the recipe though, the cookies are delicious!
I’ve made these a few times….so delicious!!
Awesome blog post, Marilyn! My granddaughter is going to make some cookie tonight, so I’ll pass your recipe on to her. I love the way you have incorporated team members’ shop items. Very nice and tasty!
I’ve made these cookies a few times too- Loved the story behind them! Pretty awesome cookies – Thanks for sharing the recipe – I’m inspired to make them again!