Chocolate Malted Cookies

This was a request by my friend Amanda.  We both love the Taste of Home collectors magazines you can buy and this was one of the recipes from there. 

When making this recipe it occurred to me that I have no idea what malted milk powder really is.  So a quick search on Wikipedia turned this up:

Malted milk is a powdered food product made from a mixture of malted barley, wheat flour, and whole milk, which is evaporated until it forms a powder.


Malt powder comes in two forms: diastatic and nondiastatic. Diastatic malt contains enzymes that break down starch into sugar; this is the form bakers add to bread dough to help the dough rise and create a good crust. Nondiastatic malt has no active enzymes and is used primarily for flavor, mostly in beverages. It sometimes contains sugar, coloring agents, and other additives.

So, there you have it. All I know is it was super yummy in these cookies.

The recipe was very basic and easy to make. You can definitely taste the malted milk powder in these, that is not to say that it's over powering; just different then your usual chocolate chip cookie.  Very tasty!

I found the recipe here