Mrs. Field's Cookies

By: Mrs. Field via Joy Schantz

Recipe History: Someone paid $250 for the following recipe. I've made it many times, and it is rich and delicious!

Ingredients:
2 cups butter
2 cups sugar
2 cups brown sugar
4 eggs
2 tsps vanilla extract
4 cups flour
5 cups oatmeal (placed in blender, 1 cup at a time, and turned into powder)
1 tsp salt
2 tsps baking powder
2 tsps baking soda
2 12-oz bags chocolate chips
1 8-oz Hershey bar, grated
3 cups chopped nuts (any kind)

Directions: 

• Cream together butter, sugar and brown sugar.
• Add eggs.
• Mix together flour, powdered oatmeal, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
• Combine dry ingredients to creamed mixture and mix well.
• Add chocolate chips, grated Hershey bar, and nuts, mixing well again.
• Using ice cream scoop, drop in golf ball-size mounds, 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake in preheated 375 oven for approximately 7 minutes.

Makes over 100 cookies.