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I Baked $250 Cookies | Famous Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe | NYT Cooking

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Hello! Vaughn here. I’ve been curious about the legendary $250 cookie recipe (allegedly from Neiman Marcus) for a while, and now seemed as good a time as any to dig into its history and bake the cookies for myself. And then send the recipe to a bunch of friends. Cookie! Connection!

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is it good oh very good would you pay250 dollars for it no no hey what’s upyou guys hey hey hey I’m Vaughn I’m avideo producer for NYT cooking and Ilove sugar and I love the internet andI’ve been spending a lot of time withboth recently I was kind of like diggingthrough our recipe archives and I cameacross this recipe for $250 cookies thestory the folklore behind the cookie isthat a woman was at lunch with herdaughter the neiman-marcus cafe and theyhad these cookies at the end of theirmeal the woman loved them so much thatshe asked the waitress for the recipe onthe way just came back she was like thatof e250 and the woman’s like great andshe looked at her credit card statementbla bla bla bla I was doing $50 anywaysit was a hoax it was one of those chainemails it was like if you don’t sendthis to 15,000 people in the next therecipe was circulated around and itbecame known as these like revengecookies because the woman to exact herrevenge on Neiman Marcus was like I’mgonna send your expensive recipe to allof my friends and they’re gonna makethem for free I’m gonna obviously testthem or the sake of journalism do an IRLchain mail type thing where I get peopleto bake them and I’m gonna see what theythink ofsee how much they would pay for them andthen I’m going to ven milk charge themwell I so I wanted to know a little bitmore about these $250 cookies who wouldmake this up it’s just weird I guess doyou all have any insight as to how thisthing got started or did it justtranspire one day and you kind of had toride the wave we’re all connected by thecookies how cute okay this recipe isvery simple it’s got two thousand fivestar ratings so I’ve got very high hopeswell this is a really bad angle I’mgonna start easing out all myingredients that’s essentially just likegetting them ready cool see very pantryfriendly recipe and if we didn’t haveeverything on hand we could you knowswitch some things out[Music]absolutely everywhere[Music]what a fun tracking shot cookies $250cookies to be exactnow I mean it’s just like the name ofthe recipe from like Neiman Marcus doyou wear anyway cool was this in anemail perchance no no I’ve had that theyprinted it out and gave it to meprobably over 25 years ago what I’veresearched online says that the originalrecipe makes a hundred and ten cookiesand our recipe on the site makes 55 ahundred and ten Nick no this says makes112 whoa my recipes better we do notneed a hundred and twelve cookies inthis house Bobforgot to choke me nutsgot a lot brighter in home just simplymust scrape down the bowl the cow likelight and fluffy[Music]I did it that a teaspoon it’s hard to dothis with one hand oh no oh no thatsucks I’m gonna save this and I’m goingto find something else to do with itall right we’re doing it with one handagain scary pulse a few timesAaron McDowell taught me this trick aqueen kind of prevents the flower fromgoing everywhere and that took like afew seconds because I don’t want toovermix it we don’t want tough cookieswe’ve already dealt with enough toughcookies today[Music]how’s that for a POV shot great atHershey’s bars is a very weird conceptto me but I think it’ll be nice to havelike chocolatey dispersion throughouthey mom mom it’s hard cuz they keep allflying it’s flying breaking off use abig drink or what do you mean hell theydidn’t have micro-planes back then withthis right speaking do you think Ishould use a box grater hey won’t aglass down[Music]what do you do when you get down to theovens I get another candy before herthey cost so much because they have seenmanipulation then would you like for meto do see it’s hard I’m just gonna throwthese little chunks in there it will benice surprises later now take the CountyFair is that an expression yeah what itis now the grated chocolate is likeperfuming the batter which is kind ofniceOh cookie yelling turn side note when Icould not imagine doing a hundred andtwelve of these I had 60 and they arethey’re pretty heaping I am gonna bakehalf of them and then I’m gonna bake theother half and then I’m gonna eat themhopefully not all of them[Music]the cookies are the fluffy gorgeousdarling just gorgeousyou’re gonna eat some and give you myunsolicited well no I guess it’s notunsolicited I really relate to them thisguythey’re good it’s a very good cookieit’s got like a nice nuttiness from theoat mom you wanna eat a cookie 960 okaywell my fans I like it the more Icoalition oh yeah would you pay $250really for this recipe no need no Ididn’t pay 250 for the last one oh wow[Music]what’s for dinner okay little crunchy onoutside where – on the inside awesome ohgood Wow – top eh cookies I’m gonna sendthe recipe to some of my friends and seehow they like them just keep the lovegoing via baked goods like oatmealcookie and a little black dress a gratedchocolate in here it’s really good so wehave 37 because I eat so much I’ve beenaveraging like six or seven cookies aday they’re really good but so 35 morecookies if we can’t feel connected inperson we might as well feel connectedthrough like a shared activity it’s kindof cool to get a bunch of people bakingall the same fish Cheersconsidering I haven’t baked insidelike 10 this is a little girl that wewere baking cookies together and wouldyou pay $250 for this cookiesabsolutely God love me some vengeancecookies no it’s pretty good yeah how wasthe grading of the chocolate that’s amajor pain in the ass ultimately bakingit makes you feel connected to peopleand it makes me really thankful andgrateful for the people that I have inmy life that I can share in that welcomeyou definitely can’t put a price on thatI hope you guys find some recipes thatinspire you to do the same maybe it’sthis recipe maybe it’s another one butregardless happy bakingoh there’s nothing better wait can Itell you um that I had a very successfulchain letter that I wrote back in themyspace days I’ve got a spooky man namedOrville who lived in people’s closetsand it took off I gotta say those myfirst moment of viral success I gottaKate I couldn’t quit it

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