Chocolate Malted Whopper Cookies

RiBigMouth's Note:

I hope you like this recipe it has been kid approved (by a 8 & 12 year old)! If you like chocolate and can eat a container of malt balls then this is the cookie for you. (come on I can't be the ONLY one) LOL

• Total Time: 12 mins
• Prep Time: 0 mins
• Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 30 cookies

• 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup instant malted milk powder (Ovaltine etc)
• ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 11 tablespoons unsalted butter , room temperature (1 stick with 3 extra tbs)
• 2⁄3; cup sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• ¼ cup whole milk
• 2 cups malted milk balls , coarsely chopped (I use Whoppers, 6 oz in total)
• 1 cup chocolate chips or 1 cup semisweet chocolate chunk

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Sift together flour, malted milk powder, cocoa, baking powder and salt set aside.
3. Beat the butter and sugar together on medium speed for 3 minutes, until very smooth.
4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating for a minute after each one.
5. Beat in the vanilla.
6. Reduce mixer to low add 1/2 of the dry ingredients and mix well.
7. Pour in the milk & mix.
8. Add the rest of the dry ingredients and mix well.
9. **The batter will look more like frosting than cookie dough.**.
10. Put mixer on low or mix by hand the malt balls and the chocolate chips/chunks or whatever you are using. I prefer doing this by hand.
11. Drop by rounded teaspoons 2" apart.
12. Bake for 11-13 minutes, when cookies are done they will be puffed and slightly soft to the touch.
13. Let cool for 2 minutes then place on cooling rack.
14. Cookies freeze well up to 2 months.
15. Enjoy!

Reviews

[Rae England]

These cookies are great if you're a chocolate lover. I first found the recipe in "Baking From my Home to Yours" by Dorie Greenspan. A huge hit.

[Chef #503285]

I actually came across this recipe for the first time at a cookie making class that I recently took. I loved it so much I was searching on-line for a picture to add it to my personal cookbook of favorite recipes and I came across this same version. This is really a fantastic cookie! I LOVE malt and this is one of the best uses of malt in a cookie that I have found!

[Amanda in Adelaide]

This is certainly one for the kids, they just loved them! I guess the fact that they are toothachingly sweet helps a bit !!