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I have been pondering this cookie recipe for some time. Not whether or not I should make it but what I should call it – the Retribution Cookie, the Cookie of Consequence, help me here…

 The story is as follows, woman goes into a well known US department store with her family and after several hours of shopping they go to the store café for a hot chocolate and a cookie. The cookie they ordered was marvelous, so marvelous in fact that she cheekily asked for the recipe. The waitress told her she could have it for two fifty, the woman happily agreed and went home feeling great with her purchases. A couple of weeks later she got the statement for her store card and was shocked to see she had been charged two hundred and fifty dollars for the cookie recipe. She called the store accounts department and was told that the charge was correct and they could not and would not do anything as she already had seen the recipe. In anger and disbelief and to ensure that this store never made another penny from this recipe again, she emailed it out and out and out until it finally fell into my hands. Now it belongs to you too.

So call it what you will – I have enjoyed making this cookie and with each bite I take I think to myself that it doesn’t pay to be an ass!

The ‘said’ cookie is a nicely textured full flavoured cookie with a welcoming chuck of chocolate or nut every now and then. One of the best cookies (biscuits for the Australians) I have ever made and eaten.

2 ½ cups of blended oatmeal
1 cup of butter (227 grams/8 ounces)
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
½  teaspoon of salt
2 cups of all purpose flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
340 grams/12 ounces of chocolate chips
113 grams/4 ounces of finely grated chocolate
1 ½  cups of chopped nuts (walnuts are best)

Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder.  Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla and mix. Then add flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda (at which point I switched the beater on my mix master to a dough hook) and mix until mixture comes together. Finally, add chocolate chips, grated chocolate and nuts and mix until combined.

Roll into balls, one inch in diametre, and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.  Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes around 50 cookies. (unless you have children like mine who insist on eating cookie dough)

Notes: I was just about to post this and my husband googled the story to discover it is an urban myth – however I chose to still post it, a) the recipe is great and b) urban myths do come from somewhere so I believe there is an element of truth to the story

Source: I would love to know.

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