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These Chocolate Malt Ball Cookies are dense chocolate fudge cookies packed with malted milk powder, chocolate chips, and malt balls. These quick and easy treats will fly off the cookie plate!
Sometimes, when life gets too hectic, or demanding, I stop and I reflect and I take a couple deep breaths, and then, when I can, I go bake.
Baking is, and always has been, my form of escape. It’s where my creativity unleashes and I can just get lost in the process of doing.
I’m in a class this semester, Economics of Happiness, and we just read a book called The Geography of Bliss. It follows a man traveling around the world in search of what makes countries some of the happiest, or saddest, places in the world. My biggest personal take away of the book? I want to go to Iceland.
The author, Eric Weiner, describes the culture of Iceland as constantly growing and changing but deep-rooted and worthy of high national pride. They celebrate their failures, learning from their mistakes, frequently changing jobs to pursue new passions, protecting and engaging with nature, and expressing all of their creativity through flow.
I love this idea of flow. Flow is described as “a state of mind where we are so engaged in an activity that our worries evaporate and we lose track of time” (Weiner). It’s enchanting to be able to separate from your worries and let go, and it’s something to be strived for. Baking is my flow.
And last week, I got stressed out, and overwhelmed…so I baked. And in my flow, I made you these amaaazingly fudgy and delicious Chocolate Malt Ball Cookies.
These cookies are not too thick, but they’re fudgy to the extreme. The cookies are made using melted chocolate, which makes them super rich and chocolatey, and chocolate malt powder, which makes them chewy around the edges and gives a super malty, delicious flavor. They’re studded with milk chocolate chips, which work perfectly with the crushed malt balls. The malt balls add tons of crunch and taste soo delicious!
I hadn’t had malt balls in a long time, and these cookies took me back! They taste like a malt ball in cookie form, and if you love fudgy, dense cookies, you’ll love these too. These cookies disappeared faster than any of us were happy about, but I hope that they’ll appear in your kitchen!
Chocolate Malt Ball Cookies
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter, cubed
- 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup malted milk powder
- 2 tablespoons baking cocoa
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 cup malt balls, gently crushed
Instructions
- In a microwave-safe bowl, melt butter and chocolate. Stir until completely smooth. Cool for 5 minutes. Whisk in the sugars, egg and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, combine the flour, malted milk powder, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Add to chocolate mixture and mix until combined. Stir in milk chocolate chips and malt balls. Use a medium-sized cookie scoop to form 16 cookies.
- Bake at 350°F for 8-10 minutes or until set. Cool for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
the cookies look amazing Rachel…there’s no better way to de-stress than baking! :)
Wow, sounds like an interesting book! I wish I took a class like that in college, haha. :) These cookies are the bomb! I love how chocolaty and fudgy they look. A+!!
These cookies are so perfect in every way. Now I’m craving malt balls and considering a late night grocery store run!
Thanks so much, Meagan!
What a great idea to use malt balls. Your cookies look fantastic and now I want to go to Iceland!
Um, yep, these cookies are both happiness and bliss defined! And let’s all pack our bags and go to Iceland (well, maybe in the summer when it’s not as cold). These cookies are the dreamiest!
Yes! Iceland trip it is! And if I can’t go to Iceland…these cookies will have to do :) thanks, Amy!
Maltballs in cookies? That’s just crazy talk! Crazy good. :)
Uh, these look really freaking good. Like holy smokes delicious brownie batter good. These would definitely bring me to my happy place! :)
Really really good and fairly easy. Got rave reviews. I suggest using very high quality cocoa powder and chocolate. I cut up Whoppers into quarters. Found that worked better than trying to “gently crush” them since they are somewhat hard. Also, I liked using Whoppers vs gourmet double coated malt balls because they have a thinner coating on them. I refrigerated dough and stuck the malt ball pieces in before baking, which worked well for me.
Thanks for the feedback, Beth! Glad you enjoyed them.
These are very good, but in my experience this recipe doesn’t make 16 cookies. I doubled the recipe, inserted about 6-7 mini malted robin egg candies into ea one before baking, and I ended up with about 2 doz cookies about 4”. The mini eggs have a shell which helps keep malt center crispy. Also worked well when I cut Whoppers in half. I find it works better for me if I insert the balks manually vs trying to mix in dough. I also baked at 325 for a bit longer. When I baked at 350 the bottoms burned
Hi Beth. Thanks for the feedback! I’m guessing you made your cookies larger than mine, which is why you yielded less and found that they burned on the bottom at that temperature (because you would have to bake longer for a larger cookie). Hope you enjoyed them, though!