It’s best to use a stand mixer for these cookies if you have one, although a hand mixer will also work fine. The quality of your chocolate chips is a big factor in these cookies, so use the best ones you can find. If the dough is tacky (it sticks to your fingers), you should add a little bit more flour. Cookies will seem undercooked when they first come out of the oven, but that is exactly what you want for the perfect clone.
* 1 cup cold unsalted butter (cubed) * 1 cup light brown sugar * 3/4 cup granulated sugar * 1 ½ teaspoons salt * 2 eggs * 1 tablespoon Madagascar vanilla extract * 16 ounces all-purpose bleached flour (just over 3 cups) * 1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda * 1/2 teaspoon baking powder * 2 cups high quality semi-sweet chocolate chips - Combine butter with sugars and salt in a large bowl using the paddle of an electric mixer on high speed until consistency of peanut butter. - Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. - In a separate large bowl combine flour with baking soda and baking powder. Pour this dry mix into the wet stuff and mix just until combined. Mix in chocolate chips. - Use an ice cream scoop to scoop out ¼ cup portions 3 inches apart on a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet. - Place a 2 ½-inch ring mold (or biscuit cutter) over each portion of dough and press down on the dough with your fingers so that is molded into a circle around the inside edge of the can. Place the dough into your freezer for 30 to 40 minutes. - Preheat a convection oven to 275 degrees (or a conventional oven to 300 degrees). - When you are ready to make the cookies, flip over each of the frozen dough pucks onto the parchment paper-lined baking sheet and bake (use top rack for conventional oven) for 20 to 22 minutes or just until a couple of the cookies show slight browning around the edges. Rotate cookies halfway through cooking time. - Immediately slide the parchment paper with the cookies on it off of the baking sheet to prevent further cooking. Allow cookies to cool for 5 to 10 minutes before handling.
Makes 20 cookies.
Note: Been researching this for years. It contains oatmeal. Look at Mrs. Field's package at the store. Not until I saw this show did I have the correct recipe less the oatmeal. Replace 1/2 cup of flour with 1 cup ground oatmeal. The texture is then exact. (Grind oatmeal in your food processor until almost a powder,) Enjoy!
source: http://www.top secret recipes.com/Mrs.-Fields-Chocolate-Chip-Cookies-Recipe.html