Tuesdays With Dorie
It's Tuesdays With Dorie time again! We've been doing a lot of cookies lately, and that's fine with me. Last week it was Chunky Peanut Butter and Oatmeal Chocolate Chipsters, a few weeks ago we made Granola Grabbers. And the cookie fun doesn't stop there! Next week the recipe is Chocolate Chunkers - another chocolate cookie! John loves cookies though, and he'll be thrilled when he comes home to find a plate full of Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops! I'll have to buy a half gallon of milk tonight because these are wicked and sinfully chocolatey! I didn't procrastinate this time. I made them on Monday instead of Tuesday!
Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops
This week, Rachel of Confessions of a Tangerine Tart chose Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops. You can find the recipe on page 84-85 of Dorie Greenspan's book, Baking: From My Home To Yours or by clicking on Rachel's blog.
Cookies My Way
Like the past cookies, these were very easy, although loaded with butter. But, I do agree cookies taste better with real butter than with a substitute. The recipe calls for malt powder or Ovaltine. I didn't have any hanging around and quite frankly, I didn't want to go out and buy yet another ingredient that would be used only once. BUT, I did have a BIG can of spiced chai! It's very close in texture to Ovaltine - kind of like dry hot cocoa mix - so I used that instead. The recipe also calls for chocolate chunks, but since I still had a hal a cup of white chocolate chips, I added that to the chocolate chunks to make one cup. When I went to the store to get Whoppers Malted Milk Balls, they had two choices to pick from. Regular chocolate malted milk balls AND Reese's Peanut Butter Whoppers! I took one of each and mixed 'em up!
My cookies came out a little different than what was originally planned, but we bakers are great improvisers! John thinks they were the cat's meow, and that's really what counts, isn't it? The rest will go to work with him tomorrow and all the guys will love me forever!
Don't forget to check out the rest of the Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops at Tuesdays With Dorie!
GOT MILK?
Great job! Who knew there were different kinds of whoppers?!?
Posted by: Cristine | September 09, 2008 at 04:56 AM
peanutbutter whoppers?! that's inspired! i'll have to look for them the next time i make these cookies.
Posted by: Lori | September 09, 2008 at 05:31 AM
I used PB whoppers too! Your cookies look yummy and I like the chai mix idea!
Posted by: HoneyB | September 09, 2008 at 08:30 AM
Your cookies look so delicious! Good idea to mix the chocolate. What a great presentation!
Posted by: Liliana | September 09, 2008 at 09:46 AM
where are you people finding all of these delicious whopper flavors?? ;) these look so yummy, great job!
Posted by: kim | September 09, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Chai mix! Wish I'd thought of that. Now, I'm on the lookout for malted milk recipes. ;)
Posted by: Rebecca | September 09, 2008 at 01:20 PM
Yours look so dark and delicious! Nice work!
Posted by: Jules | September 09, 2008 at 03:09 PM
I love how your plate of cookies and whoppers is just out there enjoying the sunshine! Great ideas for your subs - your cookies look amazing.
Posted by: Nancy | September 09, 2008 at 05:56 PM
Chai sounds like a neat add - I'm trying to imagine it with PB and chocolate...
Posted by: Caitlin | September 09, 2008 at 08:05 PM
Great improvising! They look tasty!
Posted by: Heather B | September 09, 2008 at 08:08 PM
Oh man! My hubs would have been all over those PB whoppers! I totally have to find those now. Yum!
Clara @ iheartfood4thought
Posted by: CB | September 09, 2008 at 08:25 PM
Wow! These look great! The addition of the chai tea mix was brilliant!
Posted by: food librarian | September 09, 2008 at 09:10 PM
Those look yummy. I might have to try them. I haven't ever seen the peanut butter whoppers before. I'll have to make a point of looking for them!
Posted by: Paula | September 10, 2008 at 07:42 AM
Dang. Those big rounded cookies look great. Chai sounds like it would be really good in a chocolate cookie. Really good.
Posted by: rainbowbrown | September 10, 2008 at 09:13 AM
Yummy, spiced chai cookies sound GOOD!
Posted by: Mari | September 10, 2008 at 09:40 AM
I love your tower of cookies surrounded by whoppers!
Posted by: Shari | September 10, 2008 at 10:15 AM
cool flavor subs! they look great!
Posted by: steph (whisk/spoon) | September 10, 2008 at 07:58 PM
I love your photos!
Posted by: Esther | September 10, 2008 at 10:51 PM
OMGoodness...I have some whoppers sitting on my coffee table as I type this...never knew they made PB kind...wowza! Will have to get this recipe.
Charmaine
Posted by: Charmaine | September 10, 2008 at 11:34 PM
Ok, I've got to tell you that these look fabulous!
I've been craving cookies lately... and these are NOT helping :)
Posted by: Lo (BURP! Where Food Happens) | September 11, 2008 at 12:29 PM
When I saw Reeses in the title I knew I had to check these out! They sound fantastic!
Posted by: My Sweet & Saucy | September 11, 2008 at 01:07 PM
They look wonderful.
Posted by: pamela | September 11, 2008 at 02:01 PM
Gorgeous cookies! I loved the pb whoppers in mine and the chai sounds like a great choice.
Posted by: Erin | September 11, 2008 at 05:30 PM
OMG Donna, I would have never thought of using the Malted Whopper Drops in a cookie. I would have thought it would turn out funny. I'll have to try next time I want to make chocolate chip cookies. You are brilliant Donna.
Posted by: chuck | September 12, 2008 at 02:18 PM
Okay. Boy am i late. But these look great! They are SO DARK! Yum.
But no PB for me, even though I used them too. PB is yuck. (I know, it's crazy...I think pregnancy did it to me. Haven't been the same since.)
Looking forward to your GALS post!
Posted by: Susan | September 12, 2008 at 05:35 PM
Your pictures are so lovely, as always! Way to improvise!
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