Delightful Cookies A La Mrs Fields Neiman Marcus Omac Food

NEIMAN MARCUS POPOVERS

Steps:

• Place milk in bowl
• Sift flour, salt and baking powder together into large mixing bowl.
• Beat eggs until foamy and pale in color; add warm milk.
• Gradually add flour mixture and beat on medium speed for about 2 minutes.
• Let batter rest for 1 hour at room temperature (this is an important step).
• Preheat oven to 450F and spray popover or muffin pans with cooking spray (Pam).
• Fill popover cups almost to the top with batter and place popover tin on cookie sheet.
• Transfer to oven and bake for 15 minutes.
• Reduce temperature to 375F and bake for 30 to 35 minutes longer, until popovers are deep golden brown outside and airy inside.
• Turn out popovers and serve hot with strawberry butter.

NEIMAN-MARCUS $250 CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES RECIPE

Steps:

• 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, grated Hershey Bar and nuts.
• Roll into 1 inch balls and place 2-inches apart on a cookie sheet.
• Bake for 10 minutes at 375° or until golden.

NEIMAN MARCUS BROWNIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Butter and flour a 13 by 9 inch baking dish.
• Combine dry ingredients, butter and 1 egg.
• Add pecans if desired.
• Spread in greased pan.
• Beat powdered sugar, cream cheese and remaining 2 eggs together and spread on top of the cake.
• Bake for 50 minutes or until cake tests done.

NEIMAN MARCUS BARS

Steps:

• Mix crust ingredients and press into 9x13" cake pan.
• With mixer mix powdered sugar, butter and cream cheese until combined.
• Fold pecans into filling mixture.
• Pour filling over crust.
• Bake 1 hr to 1 hr 15 min at 300 degrees.
• Let bars cool and cut into squares.

DELIGHTFUL COOKIES A LA MRS. FIELDS & NEIMAN MARCUS OMAC

Steps:

• In a food processor. A)-GRATE: 8 oz Hershey chocolate bar & set aside in separate dish. B)-Measure 5 cups (Old Fashioned) Oatmeal. Put small amounts of the oatmeal into a food processor until it turns to powder/flour (Add oatmeal flour to 4 cups white flour in step 2 below).
• Combine: In a VERY large bowl (I use a 13 quart mixing bowl.) 4 cups white flour (with above Oatmeal flour included), 1 teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons baking powder, & 2 teaspoons baking soda.
• CREAM together 2 cups (1 lb.) butter (Softened & whipped before adding sugars), 2 cups (1 lb.) dark brown sugar, 2 cups granulated white sugar.
• To the creamed mix add: 4 large eggs (ONE at a time), and 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract. Mix together well.
• To the DRY ingredients (flour/oatmeal mixture in a VERY large bowl), ADD the CREAMED mixture. Stir together (with a VERY STRONG, very large spoon - wooden?) all ingredients. Mix well with the SPOON. (Do NOT use a mixer. This recipe has burned out 2 mixers). ***THE MIXTURE WILL BE VERY DRY!***.
• Stir in, 8 oz (grated) Hershey chocolate bar, 24 oz bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips, 3 cups chopped nuts (any kind) OPTIONAL additions 24 oz (3 cups) raisins, craisins, dried cherries etc. Use your imagination! ; ).
• Form (one inch/two tablespoons) ping pong-ball sized cookies. I use a cookie-scoop (like an ice cream scoop) dipped in cold water before each use. (Wal-Mart sells cookie scoops in 2008). The raw dough balls freeze very well. I FLASH freeze them on a cutting board before freezer-bagging them together. KEEP SOME IN THE FREEZER FOR FRESH, HOMEMADE COOKIES ANYTIME!
• Cook on an UNgreased cookie sheet, 2 inches apart. Bake at 375 degrees: Soft cookies = 6 to 10 minutes.Crispy cookies = 10 to 14 minutes. (Mine are 12 minutes).
• COOL cookies on the cookie sheet (until the next batch comes out of the oven) because they are too soft to remove right away. (4 cookie sheets = 1 baking, 1 cooling, 1 prepped, 1 cleaned & drying.). Cookies CRISP as they cool.
• ENJOY!

NEIMAN-MARCUS $250 COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, and mix well.
• Combine flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder & baking soda. Mix into butter mixture.
• Stir in remaining ingredients.
• Roll into balls & place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.
• Bake 6 minutes at 375 degrees.
• Dough may be frozen in balls, then thawed & cooked.

NEIMAN MARCUS' ORANGE MARMALADE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300F; and generously butter a cookie sheet.
• Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl and set aside.
• In a work bowl, add the butter and beat on low speed; add the sugar and continue beating for about 2 minutes, until light and fluffy.
• Add the eggs and mix well, add the reserved dry ingredients and the marmalade and mix thoroughly.
• Drop dough in 2 tablespoon amounts onto the prepared cookie sheet.
• Bake for about 20 minutes or until the cookies are light brown.
• While the cookies are baking, prepare the icing.
• Combine the orange and lemon zests and juices in a bowl, set aside.
• In a separate bowl, beat the butter on low speed, add 1 cup of confectioners (icing) sugar and blend throughly.
• Add the remaining confectioners sugar, the salt, and the citrus mixture and blend until smooth.
• Remove the cookies from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool,.
• Ice the cooled cookies with a butter knife.

PASTICCIO CASSEROLE (OMAC)

Steps:

• Botton Layer: Combine macaroni, eggs and cheese. Spread over bottom of greased 13 x 9 ~ or ~ two 8 x 8 casserole dishes. Set aside.
• Filling: In a large skillet, cook beef, mushrooms and onion until tender and browned. Drain fat. Stir in tomato sauce and seasonings. Simmer, uncovered while preparing topping.
• Top Layer: In a large saucepan, melt butter. Stir in flour, salt and nutmeg. Add milk; cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Add a bit of the milk mixture to the eggs, stir quickly, then return to the saucepan. Cook over low heat for 1 minute longer.
• To assemble: Spread meat filling over macaroni. Spread top layer over the filling. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
• Preheat oven to 350. Cook the casserole for 35 - 40 minutes or until heated through.

DELIGHTFUL PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES (BIG BATCH)

Steps:

• Cream together butter and peanut butter.
• Combine sugar eggs and vanilla.
• Wisk together flour and baking soda as separate Bowl.
• Add flour baking soda mixture to the other wet ingredients and mix well.
• Once cookie dough is prepared drop on cookie sheet using a small cookie scoop 2 inches apart as cookies will spread slightly.
• Bake at 350 for 10 to 11 minutes do not over bake.