Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops
9 Sep
[SinglePic not found]As soon as these come out of the oven the rest of the story will unfold and I will know the ending. I’m pretty sure it will be happy in my mouth. They smell wonderful, just like chocolate. hmmmmmm. Thanks so much for propelling us on to cookie euphoria Rachel from Confessions of a Tangerine Tart. I seriously think it is so cool to preview these cookie recipes for Christmas baking. Isn’t that just a fabulous idea? Thank you, Thank you Rachel. As you may already know this cookie recipe is from Dorie Greenspan’s book Baking from My Home to Yours and if you would like to see the recipe visit Rachel. A click to TWD will take you to the blog roll where you can check more bakers.
There usually is never enough chocolate as far as I can tell so when Dorie offered the option of either chocolate or regular Ovaltine for the malt flavoring, well, I went with chocolate Ovaltine. From there I pretty much stayed on target with the recipe. Although, I did take the advice of veteran TWDers and cut the whoppers in half only. Using the 60% bittersweet chips and regular Hershey’s cocoa made for a nice mild chocolate flavor. They actually reminded me somewhat of a little crunchy brownie, nice and soft, puffy little cookies. Scooping up the sticky cookie dough with my ice cream scoop or triggered cookie scoop, proved to make the process a little easier. With two college students living in town it is so convenient to have some cookie dough in the freezer for a quick “freshly baked” dozen or so cookies. You never know when they might drop by with friends in tow. You can count on them being hungry. Who would turn down home made cookies? he he
These were tasty little morsels and I can’t wait to try them with some ice cream like my resident teenager did last night. Sweet dreams…
I’ve got David Lebovitz’s malted milk ice cream in my freezer waiting to be paired with the last four cookies! Can’t wait to get home!
Glad you enjoyed them! They look delicious.
I don’t know many, if any, people who would turn down a freshly baked, home-made cookie. It’s one of my favorite desserts. Thanks for the comment on my blog. Now that you say it, these cookies do remind me of a brownie. The cookies look wonderful.
Hi AmyRuth,
Those are some great looking cookies. I made mine with chocolate and yogurt covered malted milk balls. Our kids are grown so we have to do all the testing ourselves.
Thank you for finding my blog and visiting. We do the baking and blogging on Tuesdays but when do we do the weigh-in?
Susan ~Thanks for stopping by for a visit. I had a similar situation just this week one of my Corgi’s accidentally enjoyed some (3) Chocolate Chunk Hazelnut cookies. She was quite entertaining that night with lots of vim and vigor : ).
your picture makes them look so inviting!
actually, i made these again today with bigger pieces of whoppers and it was a mistake – smaller is better i think. the big pieces were so hard and i hated them!
Glad you liked them!