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[evlpez]

My all time favorite chocolate chip cookie is still the ever famous $250 cookie recipe.

Jan's Edit: I got this off the net the day I posted it, and later found that it's different from the recipe I actually use. I don't endores this recipe, so try it at your own risk. My original $250 cookie recipe is below in a later post.
Ingredients:

2 cups butter or margarine
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 cups flour
3 cups Ground (fine powder) oatmeal
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
24 ounces chocolate chips
1 8 oz grated HERSHEY'S milk chocolate bar
3 cups Chopped nuts

Directions:

Cream butter with white and brown sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Blend together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add chocolate chips, candy and nuts. Roll into balls and place 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake for 6 minutes in 375 degree oven. Recipe can be halved. Makes 100-150 cookies.


(I don't use nuts though, and I use light margarine with a higher water content; the cookies end up chewy and moist.)

[zymurgy]

I'm going to admit I don't use a recipe for my chocolate chip cookies, (I'm a cook of the 'hm... needs more X' variety. Snape hates me.) but sometimes, I do this:
Grind a mega ammount of walnuts. (preferably in a nut grinder, because other machines tend to make them very oily instead of fine)
Add powdered sugar enough to compliment them. (add until it tastes good to you)
Now, slice a stick of unsalted butter into this. The actualy ammount will vary, but you want a pile of butter slices that's about a third or less of the ammount of nuts you've got.
This is the wierd part: Take both hands, and pinch the butter into the flour mix, (like you were making a pie crust) until it's thoughouly blended. What you get is a bowl full of individual lumpish bits.
If it's too wet, (read: melts on your fingers) add some plane flour.
If it's too dry, add a dash of vanilla.

Now, get out your chocolate chips, and while you roll the mixture into balls the size of the hollow of your hand, add a few to each.

Place them on an ungreased cookie sheet, and bake in a 355 oven. (the oven must be very hot when you put them in, or they melt before they bake)

In about ten minutes, they'll be done. They will still be slightly soft to the touch, but will have brown undersides.

Remove from the oven, and let cool before you try to move them at all, since they'll crumble to bits otherwise.

Enjoy.

Not a conventional chocolate chip, but still very entertaining.