Chocolate Malted Whopper Cookies

Total Time: 12 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup instant malted milk powder (ovaltine etc)
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 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
• 1/4 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

Recipe

• 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!