Neiman Marcus $250 Cookies Recipe features all of the usual suspects of chocolate chip cookie—butter, brown and white sugars, eggs, vanilla, flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda—but also calls for ...

In case you're not already familiar, allow me to introduce you to the $250 Neiman Marcus cookie —a baked good so legendary in the 1990s that the urban legend persists to this day.

Rumor has it, this recipe is worth $250. Some might even say $500. But they’re just that – rumors. The tale of the Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe is a “golden oldie of an urban legend ...

There exists a collection of urban legend-friendly recipes that everyone needs but not everyone has. You just need to know where to look. Today's recipe is the subject of many untrue rumors ...

There exists a collection of urban legend-friendly recipes that everyone needs but not everyone has. You just need to know where to look. Today's recipe is the subject of many untrue rumors ...

For 10 years, Neiman Marcus has been plagued by this particular urban legend. Before that, in the mid-1980s or so, the story was attached to Mrs. Field’s Cookies.

Neiman-Marcus doesn’t sell its recipes, and in fact, the store created a cookie after this story originally circulated to capitalize on the popularity.

Neiman Marcus might be known for lavish, upscale merchandise, but, it turns out, there’s no charge for urban legends. A recent Home Plates column dealt with the myth of the very expensive cookie ...

Garvin began working at Neiman Marcus in 1994 and received a letter asking how he could charge $250 for the recipe (the urban legend, for those who don’t know, goes that someone asked for the recipe ...

The infamous “Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe” was sent and forwarded by everyone probably before “spam” was even a term (“cookie” was already taken).

Boy, was I upset!! I called Neiman’s Accounting Dept. and told them the waitress said it was “two fifty,” and I did not realize she meant $250.00 for a cookie recipe.

The infamous “Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe” was sent and forwarded by everyone probably before “spam” was even a term (“cookie” was already taken).