Have you never read....
the bogus story about the Nieman Marcus recipe? Supposedly, a woman asked for the recipe at Neimans, while at lunch, and was told it yes, but it would be two fifty. She charged the meal and recipe, but when the bill came in, it was for two hundred and fifty dollars, not the two dollars and fifty cents she thought. So, she copied it and sent it out to everybody. I took that recipe and added a couple of ingredients and made the best @#%^ chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, ever.
Cream together: 2 c butter, 2 c sugar, 2 c brown sugar. Add: 4 eggs, 2 tsp. vanilla. Mix together: 4 c flour, 5 c oatmeal ( put small amounts into blender until it turns to powder.) 1 tsp. salt , 2 tsp. baking powder, 2 tsp. baking soda. Mix together all ingredients and add 24 oz. bag of chocolate chips, one 8 oz. Hershey bar grated, ( can be done in processor ) and 3 c chopped nuts. Bake on ungreased cookie sheets. Make golf-ball sized cookies, 2 inches apart, and bake at 375 degrees for 6 minutes. Makes 112 cookies.
Now, this is not the recipe that I use for my "super" cookies, I do add a couple of things. But these are excellent. And, you might want to shop for a "gormet " chocolate chip. Hey, did you ever try the cake recipe?
Phil