TWD: Malted Chocolate Whopper Drops

At least one, and possibly 4 years ago, I found a recipe that required malted milk powder. I searched high and low for malted milk powder and never found it. Some time later, in one nameless, nondescript grocery experience, I found the malted milk powder. Given the time that had elapsed between my initial search and my success, it should come as no surprise that I couldn't, and to this day, can't locate the original recipe. Boy, was I psyched to find that Dorie had a use for my heretofore unopened can of malted milk powder. (I know, you're thinking to yourself, why doesn't she just up and make a "malted!" Well, that would be too obvious, and besides, there are other recipes just begging to be made.)

One of those recipes is clearly this one-- malted chocolate whopper drops, chosen by Rachel of Confessions of a Tangerine Tart. I once OD'd on the whoppers that my boss kept in his office, so the name-brand option was scratched off my list. While shopping last week for a cup of basil to make tomato sauce , I ended up at By the Pound. While cruising the aisles, I noticed that they had four, yes, four different kinds of malted milk balls. If you've been following my tale, you are well aware that I left the peanut butter malted milk balls right there in their bin. I brought home traditional milk chocolate, espresso dark chocolate, and triple dark chocolate.

I made one batch of the dough according to the recipe, divided it into three portions and added one type of candy to each of my bowls. I baked each type on its own cookie sheet and cooled them in separate corners of the cooling rack. Then, the cookie hordes came, ate them with vim and vigor and a vengeance. Va, va, va, voom! By the time I went to enjoy my cookies, it was tough to distinguish by their cocoa-brown exterior. So I tried one, delicious. Tried another in search of a different candy. Yum. They were all good. In not too much time, they were all gone. Mostly enjoyed dunked in cups of milk.