Hawaiian Cookie Recipe - The Myth

I tried the famous cookies recipe last night.. you know the email that went around about how this person was charged for a recipe at Famous Amos... this email that i got was for this Malaysian lady.. the recipe cost her RM250.. but very weird cuz many many years ago there was this story about this lady being charged US$250 at Neiman Marcus! So how come from US$ change to RM250!!! And the original email required Herseys chocolate bar but the current email required Cadbury!! ahahahha After trying it out, it tasted and looked more like Mrs Fields cookies or Neiman Marcus.. have not tried that yet) than Famous Amos... (trust me.. i'm a cookie connoisieur!! hahaha)

Farid & Mak came over so yesterday's iftar was fun & noisy... mama cooked roti jala with beef curry & salad.. simple & nice..

I made the cookies until midnight!! At first i dropped spoonfuls and the cookies turned out huge!!! so after trial & error, i dropped 20 cent coin sizes.. i made about 400 cookies!! Its a little pricey cuz instead of the normal cocoa powder, the recipe required Cadbury bars to be grated.. i bought 2 bars ($9!!!) chuck them in the freezer first helps in easier grating.. Here's the recipe...

2 cups butter
4 cups flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups brown sugar
5 cups blended oatmeal (measure oatmeal &
blend in blender
to a fine powder)
24 oz. chocolate chips
1 tsp. salt
18 oz. Cadbury bar (grated)
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
2 tsp. vanilla

Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with
flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips,
Cadbury bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a
cookie sheet.. bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 122 cookies..

Other so-called Famous Amos cookie recipe that i've encountered are as follows:-
Happy Baking!!

Famous Amos Cookies recipe
2 sticks (1 cup) margarine
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 level teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup chopped pecans
3/4 cup white granulated sugar
18 ounces chocolate chips
2 medium size eggs
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
Heat oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix all ingredients in large mixing bowl, thoroughly adding pecans and chocolate chips last.
Drop spoonsful of cookie dough onto a baking sheet making sure dough is not too close together.
Bake cookies between 10 to 20 minutes depending on size of cookies.

And another one......

1 c. butter, softened3/4 c. packed brown sugar3/4 c. granulated sugar1 tsp. vanilla1 tsp. ????2 med. eggs2-3 1/2 c. flour1 tsp. baking soda1/2 tsp. salt2 c. macadamia nuts12 oz. chocolate chipsMix together. Add flour, soda, salt, nuts and chocolate chips. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 minutes.