Friday, August 19, 2011

Baking with Uncle Alan :)

Since moving to Atlanta in March, Uncle Alan is generally off one day during the week, and we take full advantage of it while we can! I LOVE spending time with my brother {he is way up there on my list of favorite people}, and so does Ryan!!

So yesterday, R and I attended a movie screening of the Dinosaur Train Big City movie {premiering next week on PBS} at one of the local libraries ... Ryan is really into dinosaurs these days, by the way!




Then, we headed over to spend the afternoon with Uncle Alan! He had a full agenda planned for us when we arrived: 1) go to the tax commissioners office to get new license tags for his car, 2) have lunch at Bagel Boys, and 3) make Neiman-Marcus chocolate chip cookies :)





It was a fun day, and the cookies were delicious, as always!! And as a little added bonus for your Friday afternoon, here is the Neiman-Marcus chocolate chip cookie recipe ... they are probably the best I have ever had! :)

NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (recipe may be halved)

2 cups butter
24 oz. chocolate chips
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. baking 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)

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.

No comments:

Post a Comment