Sugar Cookies

1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
4 tsp baking powder
pinch salt
6 cups flour

• Cream together all ingredients except flour.  Add flour and chill 1 hour.
• Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes.

Frosting:
8 oz. cream cheese
1/2 cup butter
2 tsp vanilla
4 1/2 cups powdered sugar
food coloring

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have tried through the years to make a good chocolate chip cookie and have failed every time.  They were either flat and greasy or cakey, but never that perfect in between.
My friend Melanie gave me this recipe and I tried it with success!  I am so excited...but not as much as my family.  They finally get chocolate chip cookies again.


1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp hot water
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups chocolate chips (I used half peanut butter chips and half chocolate)
1 cup walnuts (optional)

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 
• Cream butter and both sugars until smooth.  Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla.
• Dissolve baking soda in hot water.  Add to batter with the salt.  Stir in flour, chocolate chips and nuts.
• Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased pans.
• Bake for 11 minutes in preheated oven.

Neiman Marcus Cookies

This is the recipe from the email that everyone gets. The one about a lady who has to buy a 250 dollar recipe when she thinks it is a 2.50 recipe. The story is totally false by the way. The cookies however are fabulous.








2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 cups sugar
5 cups oatmeal, blended
24 oz chocolate chips
2 cups brown sugar
1 tsp salt
1 8 oz Hershey Bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts

• Measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder.
• Cream butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl add flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, soda. Mix dry ingredients with the sugar mixture.
• Add chocolate chips, Hershey bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet. 
• Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Makes 112 cookies.