Would you like to fly in my Malteser Balloon . . .

One of the things I love most of all in this world, is a little round and chocolate covered malt-flavoured crunchy candy ball called maltesers. When I buy a packet of Revels (that lovely little mix of surprises) those are the ones which bring a smile to my face . . . every time. When I get a tin of Celebrations Chocolates, the malteser ones are mine . . . no arguments. I just love Maltesers! Always have done . . . always will. Mind you, in Canada, they were always called whoppers. My children each got a box of them from Santa one year for Christmas, and my eldest fell sick afterwards. He always blamed the whoppers, but that's a whole 'nother story . . .



Welcome to Tuesdays with Dorie, a bunch of fantastic bakinista's who get together one day a week as a group and bake the same recipe from the same lovely book by the Grande Dame Bakingnista, Ms Dorie Greenspan . . . yes . . . . Baking, From My Home To Yours. This weeks recipe was Chocolate Whopper Malted Drops on page 85, as chosen by Rachel of Confessions of a Tangerine Tart .



I was thrilled to see this as the choice for this week, even though we had made cookies just the week before. It was a recipe I had been eyeballing for a while and just hoping that someone would pick, for I love cookies, and I love, Love, LOVE whopper maltesers! I can't get enough of them! Thanks Rachel!



From the outset, I decided that I was going to use a combination of the white and the dark Maltesers for these lovely cookies. I thought they would both look really pretty and delicious in the mix and I was right. They did. The biggest problem I had was crushing the darn things! Maltesers do not crush gladly! I was afraid that if I used my food processor I would get powder, so I tried putting them in big zip lock baggie and then bashing them with a rolling pin, but the darn things rolled around too much and then broke right through the bag anyways! I thought about just biting each one in half . . . eating one half and then just using the leftover halves . . . but then thought to myself . . . who wants to eat cookies full of half bitten maltesers . . . so quickly relegated that idea to the rubbish pile, although . . . it did bring a smile to my face. In the end I decided that using some of them whole and some of them crushed would and could only make for a more interesting cookie!



It was Todd's birthday on Saturday past and so I thought these cookies would be the perfect addition to the celebration table in addition to his birthday cake and so I baked them on Saturday morning. After I had beaten the third egg into the mix I realized the recipe only called for two eggs . . . oh woe is me . . . what to do . . . I gritted my teeth and decided that I would leave out the milk, cross my fingers and go for it anyways! (Secretly I was really worried that they would not turn out or taste awful . . . )



WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW

These turned out to be delicious cookies! They did spread out a rather lot and I'm not sure if that is due to the fact that I used an extra egg or not. But they were/are lovely. Three days later and I am still eating them. Just as compelling as a malteser (you can't eat just one) these cookies are now on my list of favourite compulsions and I will be making them again soon . . . only this time with the proper amount of eggs.

I followed the recipe exactly, with the exception of using an extra egg, leaving out the milk, using a combination of white and milk chocolate maltesers and using chopped up Bourbon dark chocolate bars for the chocolate bits.

Nothing could get any better except . . . after looking at them for a few minutes I thought to myself . . .



Those would make darn good whoopie pies!
And so I did . . . make whoopie pies with some of them . . .
and they were . . .
exceedingly, splendiferous, absolutely, darn good!



Next week's recipe is Chocolate Chunkers on page 70, as chosen by Claudia of Fool for Food . Mmmm . . . just the title does it for me . . . Can't wait!

In the meantime, why don't y'all hop on over to the blog roll and check out all the other lovely creations. For the recipe check out Rachel's page. The recipe's up now!



mmmmmmm . . . just . . . one . . . more . . . mouth . . . full . . .