For this week, Rachel of Confessions of a Tangerine Tart chose Chocolate Whopper Malted Drops. You can find the recipe on her blog, or on page 85 of Dorie’s book, Baking: From My Home to Yours. My husband took these to work and his coworkers devoured them – one very slim young lady ate five. I think she’s a size zero. Sigh.
Believe it or not, I could not find malted milk powder anywhere, and I did not want to buy a huge jar of Ovaltine, because it would sit in my cupboard for years. So, what did I substitute for the malted milk powder, you ask? Ground up malted milk balls! Hooray! And it worked perfectly. I didn’t bother to sift the ground up whoppers along with the other dry ingredients, just added them to the mixture.
After reading some of the other posts, I didn’t cut up the remaining malted milk balls, and just threw them whole into the batter, along with about 2 ounces of bittersweet chocolate (I didn’t add the full amount because I’m already on sugar overload).
The end result? A chocolaty, caramely, soft and chewy cookie. The malted milk balls just melted into the batter, leaving toffee-like pockets in the cookies. Boy, are these RICH. Next week, however, Claudia of Fool for Food has picked Chocolate Chunkers, my favorite Dorie cookie recipe of all the ones I’ve tried so far. When I give those away, they go only to my most favorite people!
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