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Mrs. Fields $250 Cookies

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Submitted by gumbo

Mrs. Fields $250 cookie recipe with ground oatmeal, double chocolate (chips and grated bar), two cups of butter, and chopped nuts. Makes 8 dozen legendary cookies.

YIELD

8 dozen

PREP

24 min

COOK

6 min

READY

30 min

This is the famous "$250 cookie recipe” that’s been circulating since the early internet days. Whether the backstory is true or not, the cookies are genuinely fantastic. Two cups of butter, four cups of sugar (split between white and brown), and a double hit of chocolate make these thick, rich, and dangerously addictive.

The trick that sets this recipe apart is grinding the oatmeal in a blender until it becomes a fine powder. That oat flour blends invisibly into the dough, adding body and a subtle nuttiness without the visible oat flakes. People will taste these and swear there’s no oatmeal in them.

Twenty-four ounces of chocolate chips plus an eight-ounce chocolate bar, grated, go into the dough along with three cups of chopped nuts. The grated chocolate melts into the dough during baking, creating pockets of pure fudgy chocolate between the chips. Golf ball-sized drops on the sheet and just six minutes in the oven produce cookies that are crisp at the edges and soft in the center.

Pro Tips

  • Grind the oatmeal until it’s truly a fine powder. Coarse bits will make the cookie texture gritty instead of smooth.
  • Six minutes sounds short, but these are large cookies and they continue baking on the hot sheet after you pull them. Overbaking dries them out.
  • Cream the butter and sugars thoroughly until light and fluffy. This step builds the structure that keeps the cookies from going flat.
  • Chill the dough for 30 minutes if it’s too soft to scoop. Warm dough spreads too much in the oven.

Variations

  • Use dark chocolate chips and milk chocolate for the grated bar for layered chocolate flavor.
  • Swap nuts for toasted coconut flakes for a tropical twist.
  • Add a teaspoon of espresso powder to the dough to intensify the chocolate flavor.

Ingredients

2 473
CUPS ML BUTTER
2 473
CUPS ML SUGAR
2 473
CUPS ML BROWN SUGAR *
4 4
LARGE LARGE EGGS
2 10
TEASPOONS ML VANILLA EXTRACT
4 946
5 1.2
CUPS L OATMEAL
1 5
TEASPOON ML SALT
2 10
TEASPOONS ML BAKING POWDER
2 10
TEASPOONS ML BAKING SODA
24 693.6
OUNCES ML/G CHOCOLATE CHIP
8 231.2
OUNCES ML/G CHOCOLATE BAR
plain
3 710
CUPS ML NUTS
any kind, chopped

Directions

Cream: butter, sugar, brown sugar.

Add: eggs, vanilla In a separate bowl mix: flour, oatmeal (grind in blender until a fine powder), salt, baking powder (dash more if you want a softer cookie), baking soda.

Mix all and add: chocolate chips, chocolate bar, grated, and chopped nuts.

Place golf ball sized cookie dough drops on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 350℉ (180℃) for 6 min (or so).

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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 729g (25.7 oz)
Amount per Serving
Calories 3411 55% from fat
 % Daily Value *
Total Fat 207g 319%
Saturated Fat 100g 500%
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 469mg 156%
Sodium 1675mg 70%
Total Carbohydrate 124g 124%
Dietary Fiber 27g 108%
Sugars g
Protein 107g
Vitamin A 65% Vitamin C 3%
Calcium 39% Iron 92%
* based on a 2,000 calorie diet How is this calculated?
Trans-fat Free, High Fiber
 

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