This is the Neiman-Marcus Cookie recipe. They are great, but come out a little hard. Shouldn't use so much oatmeal.

I used my Pampered Chef large bar pan to cook these little beauties and they were not hard at all. In fact this was the best batch of cookies I've ever made in my life!

I made these and my poor hand mixer gave up about halfway through : ) Got a work out, but they came out great.

Excellent, excellent cookie. I've been looking for a recipe for the perfect texture cookie for over 30 years and this is it. My husband loved them too.

The Urban Legend...

My daughter and I had just finished a salad at Neiman-Marcus Cafe in Dallas & 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." Well" I said, "would you let me buy the recipe?"

With a cute smile, she said YES". I asked how much and she responded, "Only two fifty, it's a great deal!" I said with approval, "just add it to my tab".. Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement from Neiman-Marcus and it was $285.00. I looked again and 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's outrageous!!!

I called Neiman's Accounting Dept. and told them that the waitress said it was "two-fifty," which clearly does not mean "two hundred and fifty dollars" by any POSSIBLE 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 her the criminal statutes which govern fraud in Texas. I threatened to refer them to the Better Business Bureau and the State's Attorney General for engaging in fraud. I was basically told, "Do what you want, we dont give a damn, and we're not refunding your money." I waited a moment, thinking of how I could get even,or even try to get any of my money back. I just said, "Okay, you folks got my $250.00, and now I'm going to have $250.00 worth of fun."

I told her that I was going to see to it that every cookie lover in the United States with an e-mail account has a $250.00 cookie recipe from Neiman-Marcus... for free..She replied, "I wish you wouldn't do this" I said, "Well you should have thought of that before you ripped me off", and slammed down the phone on her.. So, here it is!!! Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of. I paid $250.00 dollars for this... I don't want Neiman-Marcus to ever get another penny off of this recipe....

When I make these cookies I run the dry oatmeal through a coffee grinder. The come out AMAZING every time :)

This is THE GREATEST recipe ever!!! These cookies are amazing. And I love Laurie's story so much as well. Thank you for passing this recipe on!!

The most crucial thing to remember is to remove the cookies immediately, even if they don't appear done. They will continue cooking. This recipe also makes great jumbo cookies as follows: measure 1/4 cup dough per cookie and shape into 2 3/4 inch circle. Bake 10 minutes, cool 5 minutes. The texture will be both chewy and slightly crunchy. If the cookies are brown when removed from the oven, they'll be over baked and too hard to eat.